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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The US is applying a lot of pressure on Iran right now. They transferred more than 30 USAF tanker planes to the region last night. The Nimitz air craft carrier group is on its way. Trump has told everyone in Tehran to evacuate. And he has just left the G7 a day early and is convening the National Security Council in the Situation Room tonight. I'd say Iran has about 12 hours to decide to abandon its nuclear program. And if they don't, I suspect there might be a couple of B-2s in the air soon delivering a few $50 million 10,000 pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs to destroy Iran's underground nuclear facilities at Fordow. The ball is in Iran's court now.  [/quote]

Actually they are 35,000 pound bombs.

Largest non-nuclear explosives around.  Only a few planes can carry them.  Iran will definitely know who dropped them.

They are kind of cool - as long as you watch it on YouTube from a few thousand miles away.[/quote]

35,000 pound bombs is something that gives you joy to watch?

Do you know how inhumane your lot sounds to normal human beings?[/quote]

Well, they are not that exciting.  Not like mushroom clouds and shockwaves from 1960s Godzilla movie.

They penetrate into bunkers- some say 200 feet, some say 400 feet.
Dunno, never had one dropped on me.

But they are a marvel of tactical destruction for anyone trying to avoid a bomb.

You just really, really don’t want to be around one - above ground or below.

Rumors are they suck all air out for a good distance and your lungs will come out your mouth if you are near impact.  Tongue gets sucked right out within half a mile.  Intense stuff.[/quote]

You sound like a Nazi excited about gas chambers. [/quote]

We used them in Afghanistan several times.
It’s just physics and combustion of that intensity consumes all available oxygen and creates pressures your body cannot handle if exposed to the ordinance.

Cave or bunker- oxygen is finite in those spaces and flows to the weapon and the explosion will consume all available oxygen at a velocity unsurvivable within certain distances.

Best to avoid any encounter with them in real world.
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And using this will destroy the Iranian will to build a nuclear bomb?

You surely got it figured out[/quote]

DP no. It most likely will not. There are many exit and entrance tunnels and it is deep underground facility. GBU-57A would create rumble that would act similar to a pile of sand. The result after the first bomb would decrease greatly to the point of diminishing returns.

The only thing that would destroy the site would be a nuclear weapon. It would have to be a ground burst or sub ground detonation. This would vaporize a vast amount of bedrock. It would make the fallout highly radioactive and would contaminate vast areas in and outside of Iran. The atmosphere contamination would kill 1,000’s x kiloton of people per year with cancer.

There was a Russia nuclear scientist who did the calculations. For every atmospheric nuclear blast there is a corresponding number of people world wide who will be killed. This is different vs ground fallout death. It has to do with kiloton yields x 1,000’s of death from cancer. This is why they agreed to stop atmospheric nuclear testing.

[b]I do not think the US will get involved with this war. [/b]It would be a total and complete disaster for the US both domestically and internationally. Better to let Israel and Iran blow each other up. [/quote]
I would be in agreement with you, if only we had a sane, competent, and knowledgeable POTUS and SECDEF. As the world knows, we have neither. [/quote]

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