US EditionCommentary: Why ‘bunker busters’ won’t end Iran’s nuclear ambitions
- In the past week, Iran’s Natanz, Fordo, and Isfahan nuclear facilities were targeted by the United States using 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Mass Ordnance Penetrator bombs and Tomahawk missiles.
- The attacks followed the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and were enabled by advanced bomber technology and intelligence gathering.
- Seven B-2 stealth aircraft dropped MOP bombs that penetrate deeply before detonating to destroy Iran’s deeply buried nuclear infrastructure.
- President Trump said, "We've collected additional intelligence" and that the site is "obliterated," while experts remain skeptical about total success.
- Despite the strikes, an emerging consensus holds that only overthrowing Tehran’s government can end Iran's nuclear program and ongoing regional instability.
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US Shares Test Footage Of Bunker Busters To Prove Damage In Iran Strikes
They played videos of how the bombing took place on the nuclear sites, explaining how the bombers attacked. Unlike other normal bombs, the damage done by a bunker-buster bomb, cannot be seen on the surface level.
Rare demonstration of how the Bunker Buster bombs dropped on Iran work
The Pentagon has released a demonstration of how the Bunker Buster bombs, which were used on three nuclear facilities in Iran, work. On Wednesday (25 June), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine showed the media a video of a test run of the explosive. In the clip, the bomb can be seen penetrating the earth before exploding, with various angles of the impact being captured. Mr Caine explained that unlike other bombs, there is no…
Malekzadeh: Why ‘bunker busters’ won’t end Iran’s nuclear ambitions
On Sunday at approximately 2 a.m. Tehran time, seven B-2 stealth aircraft attacked the Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, strikes enabled as much by the belief that Iran had this coming as the particular technology of the American bombers. A drawling President Donald Trump put it in stark terms shortly after the operation ended. “For 40 years, Iran has been saying death to America, death to Israel. They have been killing ou…
Pentagon Releases Explosive Footage of 30,000-Pound Bunker-Buster Bomb
The Pentagon's "bunker-buster" bombs used on three nuclear facilities in Iran can decimate the inside of a deeply buried target ... and, the Defense Department's got the film to prove it. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine…
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