The National Nuclear Security Administration has authorized the B61-12 warhead life-extension program to enter the production-engineering phase.
It’s not entirely clear if these are all-new nukes, or largely re-manufactured nukes. Anything is better than nothing, of course, but I see no reference to restarting nuclear *testing.* without popping off a couple of these, how can anyone be certain that they’ll work as advertised?
And of course, western NGOs and Russian media outlets are howling in rage that the US would dare to upgrade its creakingly old nuclear stockpile.