This post was republished with permission from Zero Hedge.
We described earlier that the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has reportedly informed American officials that destroying Iran’s heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility might require the use of a nuclear weapon, based on The Guardian.
Officials, briefed on the limitations of the GBU-57 — a 30,000-pound conventional bunker-buster bomb — are worried that even if President Trump give the order it may not be powerful enough to reach and destroy the deeply buried site.
The report described that conventional bombs might have to be used to soften the terrain, followed by the dropping of a tactical nuclear weapon from a B-2 stealth bomber.
The latest reporting has sought to clarify that President Trump is not considering the nuclear option, nor has it yet to be formally presented to him by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. From fresh ‘anonymous’ White House statement present contradictory information.
So very quickly, here we are… there’s prominent public discourse about the ‘possibility’ or eventual ‘necessity’ of a nuclear bomb. As the Quincy Institute’s Eli Clifton observes:
It’s disturbing but not surprising how the entire Executive Branch communications apparatus can be activated into total war-hysteria mode seemingly overnight.
Israel is urging the US under Trump to target Fordow with whatever it takes, given it lacks the capability to carry out such a strike.
But at least it’s ‘comforting’ that a tactical nuke is off the table, for now… or wait:
“none of the options are off the table” – a fresh FOX report claims, citing a senior White House official.
All this is premised on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Iran is in fact pursuing a nuclear weapon.
Dangerously the White House seems to be siding with Israeli intelligence over the assessment of the US intelligence community, as presented by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who may have already been sidelined in White House Situation Room discussions.
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The Publication Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists are meanwhile warning that it’s possible that the Fordow enrichment facility could be destroyed and yet still it won’t make the Iranian nuclear threat go away…
If Israel decides to continue down the military path against Iran’s nuclear program, it has no choice but to ensure that the Fordow enrichment plant no longer poses a threat.
If the Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program, started on June 13, is to prove successful in preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, then a necessary—but not sufficient—step will involve the elimination of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant.
At the Fordow plant, located near the city of Qom, the Iranians have enough centrifuges (including IR-6s, their more advanced type) and uranium hexafluoride gas to produce several nuclear weapons. They could probably produce enough weapon-grade (90 percent) enriched uranium for one nuclear weapon within five to six days. Perhaps more important, Fordow itself is a hardened facility, built within a mountain and protected from many forms of attack. It could—in theory—continue to operate even after other nuclear facilities in the country have been destroyed, with its material then fueling nuclear weapons to be produced clandestinely.
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Well … THAT Fox “analysis” didn’t age well, did it? Hey FOX News “experts”!! What about using MULTIPLE MOPs?? Uhhhhh duhhhh … I guess all you “experts” didn’t consider THAT … did you??
My advice? Immediately FIRE every DRTA “expert” who contributed to this story … why? Because they are demonstrably incompetent. They don’t know their job, they’re flat out DUMB … and they’re most likely subversive elements within our Defense Agencies.
Drop a bunker buster atop warlord Zelenskyy!!!
If any nukes – tactical, dirty bombs, or otherwise – take out a US city or a US military base anywhere, we should obliterate Mecca and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
Perhaps the DRTA no longer understands what the MOP is capable of, since they were stripped of responsibility for the program in 2010?
All pertinent questions should be directed to the USAF who now manage the program.
Maybe.
And maybe the DRTA is butthurt they aren’t part of this planning anymore … and they’re desperate to remain relevant. Or they are chock full of leftist, Free-Free Palestine termites in a Department of The Pentagon?
It’s not as if the leftist media doesn’t go fishing for sources who will confirm their bias.
I guess the DRTA was correct. So we used SIX MOP’s Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha … Iran’s nuclear program is DEAD. And if the Ayatollah wants to keep breathing … he might want to capitulate and Surrender.
Free-Free the Iranian people!!
The war pigs will have a mutually assured orgasm. The same thing happened in world war one. No one has a clue as to why it escalated. It just did after the generals took charge.
they are known as having a ‘big bang wargasm’.
The msm are pushing bunker buster bombs which is completely stupid because the bunker is way deeper than they can penetrate and additionally there is angles granite slabs above it which will direct any bomb side ways off course. I guess the small hats sis pay over 200m to zion don to get his war. Even if zion don decided to attack iran, the usa would still lose. The fed are already printing money for their jew war. I think this will send americans over the edge. I dont really think nukes exists for the simple reason that Hiroshima was inhabited 2 years like nothing happened which is completely stupid when you consider that chernobyl is still uninhabitable. One thing for sure is that the seed of satan, zion don is one unimaginable fuckhead. If zion don does this, i think this will be the end of the US as we know it because the population will rise up. Prices will go through the roof an impoverish people. Zion don will be impailed.
You don’t think nukes exist because…Hiroshima? I’ve never heard such a stupid statement. Take a short nuclear physics course. Pay attention to the word “isotopes” and “half-life”. A nuclear bomb uses up its nuclear material in a fraction of a second. A nuclear reactor uses it in years. The isotopes produced are very different. The ones produced in a reactor have much longer half lives than a nuclear bomb, hence stick around for MUCH longer.
Why is it you couldn’t make your reply without being insulting?
Because he is driven by Satan. Him and his ilk are a danger to us all. He accepts any narrative spun our by ‘the experts’. The rule of thumb I go off, if you cant explain something thats easy for the lay man to understand, then its probably rubbish If they require huge amounts of water to keep uranium in a reactor cool, how cant they achieve it in a bomb. It makes no sense. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fire bombed before the supposed nukes. When you look at the marshall islands, it was more akin to a nuclear fallout similar to a reactor rather than a bomb being dropped.
Again the brit who loves zion don and his genocide responding to someone who he said he did not care about in the past. The rule of thumb I go off, if you cant explain something thats easy for the lay man to understand, then its probably rubbish If they require huge amounts of water to keep uranium in a reactor cool, how cant they achieve it in a bomb. It makes no sense. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fire bombed before the supposed nukes. When you look at the marshall islands, it was more akin to a nuclear fallout similar to a reactor rather than a bomb being dropped.