The first bomb would be dropped at a 45-degree angle to maximize penetration. The second bomb would immediately follow.

A U.S. attack on Iran's key underground nuclear facility would not be a guaranteed success, according to a national security ...

The Fordo nuclear facility is Iran's most heavily fortified uranium enrichment facility and an increasingly high-priority ...

The bomb that Shaheen was referring to is the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, known as a MOP. It is designed to attack ...

Israel's best chance at destroying the facility at Fordo could lie with a U.S.-produced bomb that's so heavy that it can only be dropped by a U.S. plane.

As Iran remains undeterred by President Donald Trump’s calls for surrender in its conflict with Israel, the president is ...

While U.S. President Donald Trump is clearly weighing his options to strike Iran or not, a new wrinkle in his calculus may be ...

The United States’s B-2 stealth bomber is currently the only aircraft designed to deploy the GBU-57 bunker buster bombs.

The U.S. may have the only weapon capable of destroying Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear facility, and it has never ...

Israel battles Iran's nuclear capabilities, with the protected Fordow facility requiring specialized bunker busters that only the U.S. possesses to eliminate this critical threat.

Iran's most fortified nuclear facility, called Fordo, is buried deep inside a mountain. Only the U.S. has the 30,000-pound ...

The 30,000 pound munition, equipped by the U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bomber may be the only aerial bomb that can reach Iran's ...