America Moves Up Construction of Nuclear Bomb 24 Times More Powerful Than One Dropped on Hiroshima
The lab designing the warhead says it is accelerating the timeline to respond ‘to a critical challenge and urgent need.’
The United States has fast-tracked production of one of the most powerful nuclear weapons in its arsenal to date, the B61-13 gravity bomb — a weapon so potent it boasts a yield 24 times more destructive than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima to end World War II.
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