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Successful crash test meets major milestone for nuclear deterrence program

October 8, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A full-scale crash test involving a semitruck impacting the side of the first prototype of a new weapons transporter successfully took place at Sandia National Laboratories this summer.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Data from the Mobile …

Categories: Coronavirus, Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: coronavirus, COVID-19, crash test, MGT, mobile guardian transporter, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, Office of Secure Transportation, P1, sled track

Sled track simulates high-speed accident in B61-12 test

October 5, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has sent a mock B61-12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs’ 10,000-foot rocket sled track to slam nose-first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high-speed accident. It allowed engineers …

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: B61-12, forward ballistics test, large-scale testing, Life Extension Program, sled track