r/moderatepolitics • u/200-inch-cock unburdened by what has been • 24d ago

Trump Team Weighs Options, Including Airstrikes, to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program News Article

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-iran-plan-nuclear-weapons-def26f1d
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u/[deleted] 24d ago

Aren’t most of them underground now?

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u/Positron311 24d ago

Bunker busters are a thing

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u/Astrocoder 24d ago

Conventional bunker busters wont get their sites. The only one that MIGHT is the 30,000 pound bunker buster bomb the US created. Iranian sites are buried deep in rock.

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u/MISSISSIPPIPPISSISSI 24d ago

You can also keep dropping them in the same spot.

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u/Bullet_Jesus There is no center 24d ago

Has that ever been tested? All I've read is that it could work in theory.

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u/Skeptical0ptimist Well, that depends... 24d ago

I believe that IDF strike on Hezbollah headquarters which killed Nasralah was a dozen of bunker buster bombs dropped on the same coordinate repeatedly.

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u/WulfTheSaxon 24d ago

Yep, reportedly 2,000 lb bombs.

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u/MISSISSIPPIPPISSISSI 24d ago

Good question. There is always this baddie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-57A/B_MOP