…22,217 to 11,511 warheads. The number of deployed strategic warheads dropped from 12,300 to 7,114, or 42 percent, during the same period. Likewise, during the George W. Bush presidency from…
…October 2010: FAS Strategic Security Blog, “Scrapping the Unsafe Nuke” 2005: nukestrat.com, “Reagan Administration Decision to Retain the B53” April 2005: nukestrat.com, “The Birth of a Nuclear Bomb: B61-11” December…
…modify almost every warhead in the enduring stockpile. This includes an estimated $3.7 billion on the W88 warhead, $3.9 billion on the B61 bomb, $4.2 billion on the W78 warhead,…
…enabling the military to achieve the same effects as the older bomb, but with lower nuclear yield.” The B61 LEP consolidates four existing B61 types (non-strategic B61-3, B61-4 and B61-10,…
…Another example is the B61-11 introduced in 1997, which is a modified B61-7 but with significantly different military capabilities. Safety and Security as Modernization Drivers Another category of warhead modernizations…