Archive: https://archive.today/l2yYN From the post: >>America's newest weapon of mass destruction is going into production seven months ahead of schedule as fears of a war with China continue to grow. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are kickstarting development of the B61-13, a nuclear 'gravity bomb' that was originally slated to go into production for the US Air Force in 2026. Gravity bombs are literally what they sound like, a bomb dropped from a military plane which lets gravity do all the work. The timeline was moved up due to the 'critical challenge and urgent need' for a new nuclear deterrent - a threat that's hopefully big enough to discourage America's enemies from attacking first. The B61-13 is 24 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. That first atom bomb, called 'Little Boy,' had a yield of about 15 kilotons - the explosive equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT.