Nuclear Information: Nuclear weapon production sites

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United States

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Nuclear weapon design, development, research, and component construction
Livermore, California, USA

Sandia National Laboratory
Nuclear weapon design, development and research
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nuclear weapons design, development, research and component construction
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Pantex
Nuclear weapon assembly and dismantlement plus storage
Amarillo, Texas, USA

Savannah River Site
Component manufacture
Augusta, North Carolina, USA

Y-12 national security complex
Nuclear weapon component and material manufacture
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Kansas City Plant
Component manufacture
Kansas, Missouri, USA

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United Kingdom

Atomic Weapons Establishment Burghfield
Nuclear weapon assembly and dismantlement plus component production
Burghfield, Berkshire, UK

Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston
Nuclear weapon design, development and research, plus component production
Tadley, Berkshire, UK

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France

Centre d’Etude de Valduc
Nuclear weapons assembly and dismantlement plus component production
Is-sur-Tille, France

Centre d’Etude du Ripault
Nuclear weapons component production and maintenance
Tours, France

Centre d’Etude de Limeil-Valenton
Nuclear weapons design, development and research
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France

Centre d’Etude de Vaujours-Moronviliers
Nuclear weapon research
Vaujors, France

Centre d’Etudes de Bruyeres-le-Chatel (Ile de France)
Nuclear weapons research
Arpajon, France

Centre d’Etude Scientifiques et Techniques d’Aquitaine (Cesta)
Nuclear weapon research
Le Barp, France

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Russia

Kurchatov Institute
Physics Research
Moscow, Russia

Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Research on possible applications of heavy water use in nuclear weapons
Moscow, Russia

START Production Association
Nuclear weapons assembly and dismantlement
Zarechnyy, Russia

Avangard Electromechanical Plant
Nuclear Weapons assembly and dismantlement
Sarova, Russia

Mayak Production Association
Warhead component production and spent fuel reprocessing
Ozersk, Russia

Elektrokhimpribor combine
Nuclear weapons assembly and dismantlement
Lespov, Russia

Instrument-making plant
Nuclear weapons assembly and dismantlement plus missile assembly
Trekhgorny, Russia

All Russia Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics
Nuclear weapons design, development and research
Snezhinsk, Russia

Siberian Chemical Combine
Plutonium pit production, spent fuel reprocessing and uranium enrichment
Seversk, Russia

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China

Northwest Nuclear Technology Institute
Archive of nuclear weapons design, development and research
Malan, Xinjiang Province, China

Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex
Nuclear weapons assembly and dismantlement
Subei, Gansu province, China

Plant 821
Nuclear weapons assembly and dismantlement
Guangyuan, Sichuan province, China

Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics
Nuclear weapons design, development and research
Mianyang, Sichuan province, China

Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics
Nuclear weapons design
Beijing, China

Harbin
Nuclear weapons assembly and dismantlement
Heilogiang, China

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Israel

Dimona Negev Nuclear Research Centre
Nuclear weapons design, development, research and component construction
Dimona, Israel

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India

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Nuclear weapons design, development, research and component construction
Trombay, India

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Pakistan

Abdul Qadeer Khan Research Laboratory
Nuclear weapons design, development, research and component construction
Khuta, Pakistan

Pakistani Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
Nuclear weapons design, development and research
Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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North Korea

Yongbyon
Nuclear reactor, fuel fabrication and reprocessing
Yongbyon, North Korea

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