The Bush administration has agreed to drop funding for continued research on the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) through the Energy Department, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) announced late Oct.

In 2005, Congress canceled the RNEP nuclear bunker-buster bomb over fears that it might provoke China. Much has changed in the two decades since. Warnings abound about the state of America’s nuclear ...

In a compromise reached late May 11, the House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee stripped nuclear warheads from the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) program study and ...

The Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, or RNEP, was first contemplated by the administration of President George W. Bush in the mid-2000s. Envisioned as a means to destroy hardened and deeply buried ...