w88 warhead accident: XoilacTV

As part of the US government's Life Extension Program (LEP) for its nuclear arsenal, the inert W88 ALT 370 warhead was dropped from a crane in New Mexico onto a slab of concrete to test the ...

W88 warheads. The US is thought to deploy approximately 800 W76 and 400 W88 warheads with approximately 2,400 W76 warheads in its reserve stockpile.5 The W76 warhead entered service in November 1978. Production ended in 1987.6 W88 production began in 1988 but was prematurely terminated in 1989 after the closure of

The W88 nuclear warhead entered the stockpile in late 1988 and is deployed on the Navy's Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile system onboard Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and its nuclear security enterprise partners recently completed the first production unit of a weapon assembly responsible for key operations of the W88 nuclear warhead.