The United States was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat, with the separate bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Before and during the Cold War, it conducted over one thousand nuclear tests and tested many long-range nuclear weapons delivery systems
Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?
Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org)
The US Air Force plans to order more than 600 of them. On September 8, the Air Force gave the defense company Northrop Grumman an initial contract of $13.3 billion to begin engineering and manufacturing the missile, but that will be just a fraction of the total bill. Based on a Pentagon report cited by the Arms Control Association Association and Bloomberg News, the government will spend roughly $100 billion to build the weapon, which will be ready to use around 2029.
Revenue: $21.4 billion Country of Origin: USA
Formed after the merger between Northrop and Grumman, Northrop Grumman is best known for its B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, which can deploy both conventional and thermonuclear weapons in a stealth configuration. Northrop recently hired Jaime Bohnke, who previously worked with both Boeing and Raytheon, in order to better compete with rival US weapons manufacturers.
Top Ten Largest Weapons Manufacturing Companies in the World - Tharawat Magazine (tharawat-magazine.com)
Russia has Tightened the ScrewsThe J-20 “stealth” fighter jet of China has been proven to be inherently incapable of powering directed energy weapons. China could have worked a way around this situation, had Russia opened the floodgates for the Communist nation to steal its aviation technology. However, in recent times, Moscow has tightened the noose for China and is very possessive about its military and defense technologies. China cannot seem to be getting enough information that would help it make some good engines, and that is why its dreams of mounting the J-20s with DEWs will remain just that – dreams.
China wanted to fix laser weapons atop its fighter jets; their engines choked (tfiglobalnews.com)
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