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Kirtland Underground Munitions Maintenance and Storage Complex (KUMMSC) is a United States Air Force facility which provides for the storage, shipping and maintenance of the nuclear weapons asenal of the United States. The site, which opened in 1994, is located on a 54-acre site at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, under the control of the Air Force Global Strike Command

It is operated by the 898th Munitions Squadron (898 MUNS) and the 377th Weapons Systems Security Squadron (377 WSSS). The facility is state of the art, with more than 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2) located entirely underground. KUMMSC is the largest storage facility for nuclear weapons in the world, with over 3,000 deliverable nuclear warheads. The majority of the munitions include the B83 and B61 gravity bombs, and W80, W78, and W87 warheads for the Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), Minuteman III and Peacekeeper ICBMs.

KUMMSC is close to the Pantex facility in Texas and is also used to store weapons designated for disposal there.

  1. "Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex Birdseye". cryptome.org.
  2. Reed, Ollie (9 April 2016). "KAFB home to massive nuclear storage complex". Albuquerque Journal. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2022. Unofficially, it's the largest storage center for nuclear weapons in the world...