The National Nuclear Security Administration furloughed 1,400 employees Monday as part of the federal shutdown, with NNSA doing budget “gymnastics” to keep contractors on-site at critical facilities.

This year's edition of Steadfast Noon, which comes at a time of heightened nuclear tension, will involve 71 aircraft from 14 countries.

The aggressor country of russia has conducted a planned strategic nuclear force training exercise, which was remotely monitored by dictator vladimir putin.

Nuclear weapons workers are being placed on leave as the government shutdown drags on. Around 1,400 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will be furloughed, with 400 workers staying in work to “support the protection of property and the safety of human life”, a spokesman said.

The consequences have been corrosive. Verification has been weakened, dialogue narrowed, and trust hollowed out. With New START set to expire, the world risks drifting into an era with no enforceable constraints on nuclear arsenals whatsoever.

WASHINGTON − The agency responsible for building, maintaining, and storing America's nuclear weapons faces an internal review of its costly effort to reestablish mass production of nuclear warhead cores. The Department of Energy's No. 2 official, James ...