{"id":131909,"date":"2021-12-07T03:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T11:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nnsa-completes-first-production-unit-of-b61-12-life-extension-program"},"modified":"2021-12-07T03:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T11:22:16","slug":"nnsa-completes-first-production-unit-of-b61-12-life-extension-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nnsa-completes-first-production-unit-of-b61-12-life-extension-program","title":{"rendered":"NNSA Completes First Production Unit of B61-12 Life Extension Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nnsa-completes-first-production-unit-of-b61-12-life-extension-program.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warhead modernization activities ensure the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile continues to meet military requirements while enhancing safety and security.<\/p>\n<p><strong> WASHINGTON \u2013 <\/strong> The U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) successfully completed the B61-12 Life Extension Program (LEP) First Production Unit (FPU) on November 23, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The B61-12 LEP helps modernize America\u2019s nuclear weapons stockpile and sustain the Nation\u2019s air delivered nuclear deterrent capability. The nuclear security enterprise, in close coordination with the U.S. Air Force, worked together to deliver the B61-12 FPU after more than nine years of design, development, qualification, and component production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warhead modernization activities ensure the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile continues to meet military requirements while enhancing safety and security. WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) successfully completed the B61-12 Life Extension Program (LEP) First Production Unit (FPU) on November 23, 2021. The B61-12 LEP helps modernize America\u2019s nuclear weapons [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}