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| The GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb |
President Trump announced that the U.S. had
bombed three Iranian nuclear sites:
President Trump, speaking to the nation late Saturday, called the strikes "a spectacular military success" and said Iran's nuclear sites were "completely and totally obliterated." Trump had ordered the attack abruptly, hoping it would catch Tehran off guard.
The sites attacked—Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan—represent the core of the Iranian nuclear infrastructure. The U.S. bombers that attacked the nuclear sites dropped bunker-busting bombs called GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators for the first time in warfare.
Just this once I hope that President Trump had turned off his sales-pitch mode and is not exaggerating an accomplishment. If Iran's nuclear-bomb capability indeed has been "obliterated," the future of the Middle East has been changed.
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