The B61 family of nuclear bombs | Semantic Scholar
@article{Kristensen2014TheBF,
title={The B61 family of nuclear bombs},
author={Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris},
journal={Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists},
year={2014},
volume={70},
pages={79 - 84},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:146744069}
}The Obama administration has approved an upgrade to the B61 nuclear bomb that will, through use of a new tail kit assembly, become a guided standoff nuclear bomb. If the upgrade—the 12th modification of the original B61 design—is pursued as planned, the US Air Force will obtain the low-yield, precision-guided nuclear weapon it first sought in the 1990s, despite concerns that it could increase the likelihood of use. The weapon’s overall price tag is expected to exceed $10 billion, with each B61…