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美国国家核安全管理局将在大美国州博览会上展示人工智能设计的核试验飞行器
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美国国家核安全管理局局长布兰登·威廉姆斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，美国“毫无疑问”正处于“与中国的人工智能能力竞赛”中。
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【福克斯新闻独家报道】 特朗普政府宣布，已利用人工智能、先进超级计算机和3D打印技术成功开发并测试了一款新型与核武器相关的飞行器，这一里程碑被美国国家核安全管理局局长布兰登·威廉姆斯比作曼哈顿计划。
随着大美国州博览会在国家广场开幕，展出的最具意义的展品之一可能是一个11英尺高的飞行器——它并非为博物馆打造，而是用于测试人工智能如何改变美国的核威慑力量。美国能源部下属的国家核安全管理局（NNSA）表示，这个名为“Aires Tide”的项目可以大幅压缩未来国家安全能力的开发周期。
此次展示正值美国官员警告称，美国正与中国陷入一场争夺人工智能在军事和战略优势上应用的高风险竞赛。
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美国国家核安全管理局本周将在国家广场展示Aires Tide。（美国国家核安全管理局供图）
“毫无疑问，我们正与中国展开人工智能能力竞赛。人工智能的力量强大无比，它能够将如此多种类的数据和不同的计算模型整合到一处并实现流程优化，未来这种优势还将持续显现，”威廉姆斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“这一技术一部分应用于国家安全领域，一部分则用于我们的核威慑力量。”
威廉姆斯表示，Aires Tide项目是美国国家核安全管理局发起的，旨在“展示我们如何利用人工智能，加快核武器生产、维护核武库的速度”。这款飞行试验飞行器被设计用于模拟核武器在飞行过程中会遭遇的极端高温和振动环境。
该项目是特朗普政府去年签署的“创世纪任务”倡议的首次公开演示，该倡议旨在连接美国能源部的国家实验室，并将人工智能应用于政府面临的一些最复杂的国家安全挑战。
美国国家核安全管理局在国家广场展示Aires Tide之际，恰逢本届政府加大力度强化美国在战略重要技术领域的领导地位。本周，特朗普签署了两项针对量子计算和网络安全的行政令，旨在加速研究级量子计算机的开发，并保护联邦系统免受未来量子赋能网络威胁。
Aires Tide是美国国家核安全管理局开发的人工智能设计飞行试验飞行器，用于模拟核武器在飞行过程中经历的极端环境，包括高温和振动。（美国国家核安全管理局供图）
美国国家核安全管理局表示，其两台超级计算机——韦纳多（Venado）和埃尔卡皮坦（El Capitan）——被用于支持Aires Tide的设计。直到最近，埃尔卡皮坦还被认为是全球最快的超级计算机。然而，在周二发布的最新TOP500排行榜中，中国的“亮线”（LineShine）系统超越埃尔卡皮坦位居榜首，这是自2017年以来中国超级计算机首次登顶全球最快榜单。
对威廉姆斯而言，计算能力的价值不仅体现在排名上，更体现在其能否快速转化为现实能力。
威廉姆斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，Aires Tide从概念设计到可飞行的硬件仅用了数月时间：官员们利用人工智能在11月完成设计，12月制作出塑料模型，3月前完成多个全尺寸原型机。据威廉姆斯介绍，这一加速流程使该机构开发Aires Tide的速度比传统方法快7倍，成本降低14倍，他称这为美国应对新兴威胁和竞争对手提供了关键优势。
“这就是人工智能的力量，它真的让我们极具信心，能够快速行动……领先于我们的对手以及我们面临的威胁，”威廉姆斯说道。
威廉姆斯将人工智能的崛起比作曼哈顿计划，称两者都是能够从根本上改变力量平衡的技术突破。正如富兰克林·罗斯福总统在二战期间认识到利用原子能的军事意义一样，威廉姆斯认为，特朗普及其政府正在拥抱人工智能，以确保美国保持战略优势。
【计算机竞赛升温 中国超级计算机自2017年以来首次超越美国所有机器】
“我们拥有追溯至曼哈顿计划的所有出色测试数据。我们能够利用这些强大的资源、测试数据和计算能力，借助智能体工作流——也就是利用人工智能模型快速、迭代地解决这些极其复杂的问题，从而实现快速推进，”他说，“没错，我们绝对与中国处于竞争之中，这具有极其严肃的国家安全 implications。我们确信，我们将做好准备赢得这场竞争。”**_
威廉姆斯表示，无人机战争、导弹技术和人工智能的快速发展正在实时改变战争形态，因此美国必须比对手更快地部署新工具。他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“创世纪”倡议旨在让美国在这一领域处于领先地位。
二战期间田纳西州克林顿工程 Works 的曼哈顿计划工厂生产了用于打击日本的原子弹。（盖蒂图片社）
“我们正处于技术变革前所未有的时期。事实上，就在过去五年里，我想我们都认同，战争形态正在我们眼前发生变化，”威廉姆斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“ 正因我们面临这场技术革命，动用所有可用工具让美国保持领先地位比以往任何时候都重要。自第一次海湾战争以来，我们的常规部队已经享受了长达40年的空前优势。”
“但随着战争形态改变，我们必须随之改变，而人工智能是帮助我们保持领先的最重要工具之一，”他补充道。
威廉姆斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，人工智能的进步并非要取代工人，而是要提高他们的生产力。他认为，人工智能可以将设计和制造周期从10至15年压缩至5年甚至更短，让同样的科学家、工程师和技术人员能够更快、更高效地开发新能力，同时帮助美国领先于竞争对手。
“Aires Tide让我们将材料科学、设计以及快速迭代等众多领域的专业知识整合在一起，”威廉姆斯说，“快速优化整个流程。这让我们极具信心，能够直面对手摆在我们面前的挑战，并且我们将能够利用这些工具取得成功，保障美国的安全。”_
丹妮尔·华莱士是福克斯新闻数字频道的突发新闻编辑，在重大历史性政治事件与人工智能时代的交汇点上发挥着关键的编辑部核心作用。
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Trump admin unveils 11-foot-tall, AI-designed nuclear test flight vehicle at the Great American State Fair
June 24, 2026 10:03am EDT / Fox News
NNSA to unveil AI-designed nuclear test vehicle at Great American State Fair
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National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Brandon Williams tells Fox News Digital there is “no question” the United States is in an “AI capabilities race with China.”
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FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration announced that it has successfully developed and tested a new nuclear-weapons-related flight vehicle using artificial intelligence, advanced supercomputing and 3D printing technology, marking a milestone National Nuclear Security Administrator Brandon Williams compared to the Manhattan Project.
As the Great American State Fair kicks off on the National Mall, one of the most consequential exhibits on display may be an 11-foot-tall flight vehicle built not for a museum, but as a test of how AI could transform America’s nuclear deterrent. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) says the project, known as Aires Tide, could dramatically compress the timeline for developing future national security capabilities.
The unveiling comes as U.S. officials warn that America is locked in a high-stakes race with China to harness artificial intelligence for military and strategic advantage.
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The NNSA is displaying Aires Tide on the National Mall this week.(NNSA)
“There’s no question that we’re in an AI capabilities race with China. The power of artificial intelligence just to be able to bring together so many kinds of data and different computational models together in one place and to streamline that is incredibly powerful and will continue to be powerful going forward,” Williams told Fox News Digital. “And so part of that is applied to national security. Part of that’s applied to our nuclear deterrence.”
Williams said Aires Tide was started by the NNSA to demonstrate “how we would use artificial intelligence to move faster in terms of how we produce nuclear weapons, how we maintain our nuclear weapons stockpile.”_ The flight test vehicle was designed to simulate the extreme heat and vibration a nuclear weapon would encounter during a nuclear weapon’s flight.
The project serves as the first public demonstration of the administration’s Genesis Mission initiative, an effort signed by President Donald Trump last year to connect the Department of Energy’s national laboratories and apply artificial intelligence to some of the government’s most complex national security challenges.
The Aires Tide unveiling on the National Mall comes amid a broader push by the administration to strengthen U.S. leadership in strategically important technologies. This week, Trump signed two separate executive orders focused on quantum computing and cybersecurity, seeking to accelerate development of a research-grade quantum computer and protect federal systems against future quantum-enabled cyber threats.
Aires Tide is an AI-designed flight test vehicle developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration to simulate the extreme conditions a nuclear weapon experiences during flight, including intense heat and vibration.(NNSA)
The NNSA said two of its supercomputers — Venado and El Capitan -— were used to enable the design of Aires Tide. El Capitan until recently was considered the fastest in the world. On Tuesday, however, China’s LineShine system surpassed El Capitan atop the latest TOP500 rankings, the first time a Chinese supercomputer has held the No. 1 position since 2017.
For Williams, the value of that computing power is measured not by rankings alone, but by how quickly it can translate into real-world capabilities.
Williams told Fox News Digital that Aires Tide moved from concept to flight-ready hardware in a matter of months, with officials using AI to generate a design by November, produce a plastic model by December and complete multiple full-scale prototypes by March. According to Williams, the accelerated process allowed the agency to develop Aires Tide seven times faster and 15 times cheaper than it could have using traditional methods, providing what he described as a critical advantage as the U.S. seeks to stay ahead of emerging threats and competitors.
“That’s the power of AI, and it really gave us incredible confidence that we’re going to be able to move fast… to stay ahead of our adversaries, and the threats that face us,” Williams said.
Williams likened the emergence of artificial intelligence to the Manhattan Project, describing both as technological breakthroughs capable of fundamentally altering the balance of power. Just as President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the military implications of harnessing atomic energy during World War II, Williams argued that Trump and his administration are embracing AI to ensure the United States maintains its strategic advantage.
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“We have all this fantastic test data going back really to the Manhattan Project. And we’re able to tap into these very powerful resources that we have, test data, computational capabilities, using agentic workflows, which is just a way of leveraging AI models to go out and solve these very complex problems very, very quickly and very, very iteratively that allows us to move quickly,” he said. “So yes, we are absolutely in a competition with China. It has very serious national security implications. And we’re certain that we’re going to position ourselves to win.”_
Williams said that rapid advances in drone warfare, missile technology and AI are changing the nature of warfare in real time, making it critical for the U.S. to deploy new tools faster than its adversaries. The Genesis initiative, he told Fox News Digital, is intended to position America at the forefront of that effort.
The Manhattan Project factory at Clinton Engineer Works in Tennessee produced atomic bombs used against Japan during World War II.(Getty Images)
“We’re in a period of unprecedented change in technology. In fact, just in the last five years, I think we’d all agree that the nature of warfare is changing in front of us,” Williams told Fox News Digital. “Because of all of this technological revolution that we’re facing, it’s as important as it ever has been that we use all the tools available to keep America out front. We’ve enjoyed an unprecedented 40 years of superiority from our conventional forces, really since the first Gulf War.”
“But because warfare is changing, we have to change with it and artificial intelligence is one of the most important tools to keep us ahead,” he added.
Williams told Fox News Digital that AI advancements are not about replacing workers, but making them more productive. He argued that artificial intelligence can help compress design and manufacturing timelines from 10 to 15 years down to five years or less, allowing the same scientists, engineers and technicians to develop new capabilities faster and more efficiently while helping the U.S. stay ahead of its competitors.
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“Aires Tide allowed us to bring so many disciplines together of material science, of design, of being able to iterate very quick,” Williams said. “Quickly and to optimize our whole process. And it just gave us tremendous confidence that we’re going to meet the challenges that, frankly, our adversaries put in front of us and that we are going to be able to use these tools to succeed and to keep America safe.”_
Danielle Wallace is a Breaking News Editor for Fox News Digital, serving as a critical newsroom playmaker at the intersection of major historic political events and the age of AI.
Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on X: @danimwallace.
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