The NNSA stated that the power of this new nuclear bomb will be 24 times greater than the one dropped on the Japanese city of ...

The lab designing the warhead says it is accelerating the timeline to respond ‘to a critical challenge and urgent need.’ ...

Military and nuclear experts say any US-Israeli attacks on Iranian atomic sites would be risky and would only set program ...

the only planes able to launch the most powerful bunker-busting bombs, to within range of Iran is a potent signal to Tehran of what could happen to its nuclear programme if no deal is reached to ...

Boasting an overwhelming maximum yield of 360 kilotons, the B61-13 bomb is no less than 24 times more powerful than ... parts of the US that are most at risk from a nuclear strike.

The timeline was moved up due to the 'critical challenge and urgent need' for a new nuclear deterrent. It is 24 times more powerful than the atom bomb that levelled Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

Key nuclear sites are buried deep underground, meaning only the most powerful bunker-busting bombs could possibly reach them. While the US possesses these bombs, Israel is not known to.