Graphic detail | Bring out the big guns
How do America’s huge bunker-busting bombs work?
The Massive Ordnance Penetrator may struggle to wipe out the deepest nuclear facilities
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Editor’s note: On June 22nd Iran time Donald Trump said that America had bombed Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, three nuclear sites.
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