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Sandia 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. "The arming, fuzing and firing assembly is the brains of the warhead," said Dolores Sanchez, Sandia's senior manager for its part of the W88 Alteration 370.
The W88 warhead, which can be launched on missiles from Ohio-class submarines, entered the stockpile in 1988. In 2012, the W88 underwent an alteration— called the W88 Alt 370 —to replace the warhead's arming, fuzing, and firing subsystem and to include safety enhancements.
The W88 warhead is one of two designs used aboard the Trident II D5 submarine launched ballistic missile. While the core design has been deployed since 1988, the Alt 370 modernization effort ...
The W88 is a United States thermonuclear warhead, with an estimated yield of 475 kilotons (kt), and is small enough to fit on MIRVed missiles. The W88 was designed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1970s.