Round Up: B61-12 Support is Also Virtual; LLNL’s ‘Ruby’ Supercomputer Up; LANL, New Mexico State Collaborate

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Here’s this week’s collection of quick-hit news about, and with implications for, U.S. nuclear security.Like almost everything else, support for a B61-12 flight test from an F-35A had to go virtual this year, accordingto a press release from Sandia National Laboratories.Sandia helped train Air Force personnel virtually in preparation for an April flight test with a non-explosive dummy mockupof the B61-12, which will homogenize four older versions of the B61 gravity bomb. The first production unit issupposed to be done in November 2021, about a year from now.