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Maps show the damage from a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb, which is around the same size as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, ...
President Trump’s claimed Iran’s capabilities were “obliterated.” The full extent of the damage is still emerging. Fordo Likely bomb entry points Fordo Likely bomb entry points This ...
A nuclear expert warned that Iran could have a Hiroshima-type bomb "within six to 12 months," provided the most recent U.S. intelligence reports on the damage from Trump's airstrikes are accurate ...
The U.S. Air Force dropped a dozen ground-penetrating bombs, each weighing 30,000 pounds (13,607 kilograms), in a raid on Iran’s nuclear site at Fordo on June 21, 2025.
With Fordo in mind, the Pentagon developed the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 30,000-pound bunker-busting bomb. B-2 Spirit bombers carried the weapons to Fordo and dropped them down the ventilation ...
The US military's top officer says development of the bunker-busting 13,600kg (30,000lb) GBU-57 bomb began 15 years ago and involved significant use of supercomputers.
That turned out to be the Fordo fuel enrichment plant, with construction believed to have started around 2006. It became operational in 2009, the same year Tehran publicly acknowledged its existence.
At the deeply buried Fordo uranium enrichment plant, where U.S. B-2 stealth bombers dropped several 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs, the entrance collapsed and infrastructure was damaged, but the ...
With questions mounting over the impact of the U.S. and Israeli onslaught on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military infrastructure, a return to hostilities could be a matter of when, not if.
Under its agreement with Iran, the I.A.E.A. is supposed to inspect the nuclear facilities that Iran has publicly declared, including those at Natanz and Fordo, which the United States bombed.
INSKEEP: President Trump disliked a Defense Intelligence Agency preliminary report that found, with low confidence, that Iranians might have moved uranium out of Fordo before the U.S. strike.