B61-12
Assuring Destruction Forever, 2022 edition, Reaching Critical Will, WILPF, Jan 2022
Update on US Nuclear Modernization for the International Disarmament Community, Mello & Williams-Mello, Jan 7, 2021
NNSA Should Use Portfolio Management Leading Practices to Support Modernization Efforts, GAO, Jun 2021
Estimated Cost of US Nuclear Modernization Jumps During More Expensive Phase, Defense One, May 24, 2021
Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2021 to 2030, Congressional Budget Office, May 24, 2021
Nuclear Delivery Systems Sustainment & Modernization Overview, Hon Alan R. Shaffer, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment, Nuclear Deterrence Summit, Feb 13, 2020
Update on US Nuclear Weapons Modernization for the International Disarmament Community, Greg Mello & Trish Williams-Mello, May 13, 2020
Assuring Destruction Forever, WILPF, Mello, et.al., Apr 2019
Update on US Nuclear Modernisation for the International Disarmament Community, Greg Mello, Apr 9, 2018
NNSA Has a New Approach to Managing the B61-12 Life Extension, but a Constrained Schedule and Other Risks Remain, GAO, Feb 2016
Modernized nuclear force is destabilizing, Mello, Albuquerque Journal, Feb 26, 2016
Assuring destruction forever: Nuclear Weapons Modernization, Reaching Critical Will, Apr 2015
Some recent and older writings on this theme by Theodore (Ted) Postol, Ph.D. (bio)
Letter to U.S. news media: U.S.-Russian strategic instability from U.S. Trident warhead upgrades (important analysis by Dr. Ted Postol), May 3, 2016
How the US Nuclear Weapons Modernization Program Is Increasing the Chances of Accidental Nuclear War with Russia, Postol, Harvard College Peace Action, Feb 25, 2016 (see also 1998 paper below for technical details)
– audio file of Ted Postol's presentation
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longer talk and more slides
The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Postol, video presentation at Helen Caldicott symposium, Feb 28, 2015
Near Miss, Postol, Boston Sunday Globe, Jan 25, 2015
How the Obama Administration Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Postol, The Nation, Dec 29, 2014
The Capabilities of Trident against Russian Silo-Based Missiles: Implications for START III and Beyond, Lewis & Postol, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feb 2, 1998
See also: That Old Designing Fever, Greg Mello, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan/Feb 2000
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for reference: Strategic Systems Update, Rear Adm. G. Peter Nanos, The Submarine Review, Apr 1997
Steven Starr, Nuclear Darkness website
– City on Fire, Lynn Eden
– Firestorm calculator
Nuclear Winter, New York Times video, Apr 3, 2016 (factually incorrect, see comment by Steven Starr)
Possible Fatalities from Superfires Following Nuclear Attacks in or near Urban Areas, Ted Postol, National Academy of Sciences, 1986
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