Engineers studying low-yield nukes, says DOE official
Despite a 1994 congressional ban on developing new nuclear payloads, engineers in the Department of Energy are working on conceptual studies to develop low-yield nuclear weapons, according to Gen. John A. Gordon, the head the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and undersecretary of...
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