President Donald Trump rejected a military plan for more comprehensive strikes on Iran’s nuclear program that would have ...

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 ...

Maps show the damage from a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb, which is around the same size as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, ...

Iran may still possess the ability to build a “dirty bomb” even after the United States struck its key nuclear sites — but using such a weapon would be “strategic suicide” for the regime ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

BRUMFIEL: In other words, regardless of whether Fordo was destroyed, the U.S. still needs to make some sort of nuclear deal with Iran if it wants to be sure it's not going to get a bomb.

He repeated that warning in 1995. In 2012, he went to the United Nations with the Wile E. Coyote-looking bomb graphic and said that Iran was only a year away from obtaining a nuclear bomb.