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President Donald Trump says he’s still Pass your options Regarding the military intervention of the United States in the midst of climbing hostilities between Israel and Iran.
On Wednesday, on the southern lawn of the White House, Trump said: “Next week will be great”, adding that Iranian officials are impatient to negotiate. However, he warned them that “it is very late to speak”, after having contacted them.
Officials and experts suggested that the Bunker’s 30,000 pound (13,000 kg) bomb of the United States is the only weapon capable of destroying the Fordow fuel enrichment factory, an establishment that would be at the heart of the Tehran nuclear program and has cut deep into a mountain.
The United States is the only country to have these bombs, which it offers using B-2 bombers. If it is deployed against Iran, it would represent a major change, of the interception mainly of missiles in the name of Israel to the production of active offensive strikes against Iran.
What are the Bunker Buster bombs?
“Bunker Buster” is a general term for bombs designed to destroy targets located under deep land that conventional bombs cannot reach.
The most powerful buster in the American army is the massive GBU-57 penetrator. Weighing approximately 30,000 pounds (13,600 kg), including a 2,700 kg warhead (6,000 pounds), this precision guided bomb is made of high resistance steel and built to penetrate up to 200 feet (61 meters) underground before exploding.
The B-2 Spirit, an American stealth bomber, is currently the only aircraft designed to deploy GBU-57 and can transport two bunker buster bombs at the same time. The US Air Force claims that several bombs can be abandoned sequentially, either by the same plane, or by several, allowing each strike to dig more deeply, amplifying the overall impact.
Israel also operates bunker made by the United States, including GBU-28 and BLU-109, which are generally removed from fighter planes such as F-15. These weapons, however, have a much less deep range of penetration and are not able to reach extreme depths of fortified sites such as the nuclear installation of the Ford-Force of Iran. In 2024, Israel would have used successive BLU-109 bombs to kill Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah chief in his underground seat in Beirut.
What is the depth of the nuclear installation of the Ford-Fordow of Iran?
The fuel enrichment factory of the Iran Ford-Fordow, located approximately 95 km (60 miles) south-west of Tehran, is built on the side of a mountain, up to 80 to 90 meters (260-300 feet) underground, to survive the air strikes and the Bunker Buster attacks.
The construction of the Fordow installation would have started around 2006 around 2006, and it became operational in 2009, the same year, Iran officially recognized it.
Under the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement, known as JcpoaIran has agreed to stop enrichment in Fordow and convert the site to a research center. However, after the United States withdrew from the agreement in 2018, Iran resumed the enrichment of uranium in the establishment. Iran insisted that its nuclear program is for civil ends.
Fordow is said to be defended by Iranian and Russian air surface missile systems, although these defenses have already been targeted in Israel’s current strikes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu designed the campaign as a mission to dismantle the capacities of Iran missiles and nuclearness, describing them as an existential threat. Officials have confirmed that Fordow is a key target.
“All this operation … must really be completed with the elimination of Fordow,” said Yechiel Leiter, Ambassador of Israel to the United States, in an interview with Fox News.
Other targeted nuclear sites
Israel would have destroyed the section above the ground of the Iranian enrichment center of Uranium in Natanz, the largest nuclear site in the country.
According to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the resulting loss of power may also have caused damage to the underground enrichment of the establishment.
Imaging before and after satellite reveals the extent of damage to Natanz.
Israeli attacks have also damaged the ISFAhan enrichment center in central Iran.
Potential nuclear and chemical contamination
Monday, Rafael Grossi, chief of the United Nations nuclear guard dog, said that there was a possibility of radiological and chemicals contamination of the damaged Natanz site.
Speaking during an emergency session of the IAEA in Vienna, Grosi said that the radiation levels remain normal outside the nuclear sites of Natanz and Isfahan from Iran, which were both affected in Israeli strikes. However, he warned that the current military climbing increases the risk of radiological release.
Fordow is located about 32 kilometers (20 miles) south of the city of Qom, the seventh largest Iranian city with a population of 1.4 million and a large religious and political center.
