The U.S Department of Defense has announced that the US will build a variant of the B61 Nuclear Gravity Bomb called B61-13. It will be produced by the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The decision to pursue this capability, made in close cooperation with the NNSA, responds to the needs of a rapidly changing security environment, as described in the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review.
From a technical point of view, B61-13 would benefit from the current consolidated production capacities supporting B61-12 and would include the modern safety and accuracy features of B61-12.
