The National Office of the US nuclear safety, structurally included in the US Department of Energy, confirms testing of controlled nuclear bombs B61-12. We are talking about the corrected nuclear warheads for strategic bombers, the US Air Force B-2 Spirit.
The report said that, that the tests were carried out with an aerial bomb, not curb nuclear warhead. Cleared air weapons while performing the tests at the site Tonopah (Nevada, USA). it happened 9 June.
The US Department of Energy noted, that during the test, US Air Force carried out and Natsupravleniem nuclear safety, important monitoring data were obtained. In particular, B61-12 bomb has confirmed the system parameters to adjust to the flight path, "Which correspond to the requirements of national security".
Recall, that this is not the first test of a controlled bombs in the US. So, B61-12 and discharged with a fighter in the past year, the F-15.
The US plans - after all necessary tests, to modernize its nuclear arsenal, which is actually scattered all over the world, including those with non-nuclear status. So, B61-12 bombs planned to put on an American air base in Germany. Against the background of the apparent cooling of relations between Washington and Berlin, this prospect is put into question by experts.
