The Great Unknown About the Damage to Iran's Nuclear Facilities

The Great Unknown About the Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Facilities


Seven B-2 Spirit Stealth bombers dropped 14 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP) bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites. All 14 bombs hit their target. 

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However, since most of the primary targets were underground, it’s unknown how badly the Iranian nuclear program was crippled.

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“There are clear indications of impacts but as for the assessment of the degree of damage underground on this we cannot pronounce ourselves,” said the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi. “It can be important. It can be significant. But no one, no one, neither us, nobody else, could be able to tell you how much it has been damaged.”

Before and after photos of the Fordow enrichment site are startling. The mountainside has been turned into

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