US EditionGen. Wesley Clark: I'd strongly encourage the U.S. not to simply bomb Iran's Fordo nuclear facility
- Israel's military has been conducting an ongoing operation against Iran, targeting nuclear facilities including the Natanz site since last week in central Iran.
- This campaign follows Iran's increased uranium enrichment and expansion of nuclear stockpiles after the U.S. withdrew from the nuclear deal, raising international concerns.
- Israel's national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi stated on Tuesday that the current operation will not end without striking the heavily fortified underground Fordo nuclear facility near Qom.
- Fordo houses advanced centrifuges enriching uranium close to weapons-grade levels inside a tunnel structure 295 feet underground, protected by hard concrete and significant defenses.
- Israel intends to neutralize Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities by targeting Fordo, but U.S. involvement remains uncertain and the conflict’s resolution is still unclear.
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Iran's secretive nuclear site and the bomb that could destroy it
If the U.S. decides to support Israel more directly in its attack on Iran, one option would be to provide the “bunker buster” bombs believed necessary to significantly damage the Fordo nuclear fuel enrichment plant built deep into a mountain.
In Fordo, Iran is enriching almost weapons-capable uranium. A 3D flight shows how protected the mine is. What would be needed to destroy it – with or without bombs.
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN If Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility is damaged or destroyed in a US attack, there would likely be limited radiation leakage in the immediate area, but it would not have the same catastrophic consequences as bombing a nuclear reactor, experts told CNN. Kelsey Davenport, director of Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, said that if the bombs were to penetrate Fordow, there would likely be “limited radiati…
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einnews.comFordo — the heart of Iran's nuclear program
Israel has said its assault on Iran aims to destroy Tehran's nuclear program. Sites in Natanz, Isfahan and elsewhere have been heavily damaged. Now the bunker at Fordo is in the crosshairs.
Protected in the entrails of a mountain south of Tehran, Fordo, intact despite Israeli bombings, is now crystallizing the limits of the Islamic Republic's military campaign against nuclear capabilities.
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