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Clandestine Pentagon program developed the bunker buster bombs specifically to take out Iran’s nuclear program. A June 25, 2025, poster from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) shows unclassified aerial images of Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant’s two ventilation shafts during construction in 2008, post-construction in 2009, and after the June 21, 2025, strike. According
Clandestine Pentagon program developed the bunker buster bombs specifically to take out Iran’s nuclear program. A June 25, 2025, poster from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) shows unclassified aerial images of Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant’s two ventilation shafts during construction in 2008, post-construction in 2009, and after the June 21, 2025, strike. According
‘I know it’s messaging, the Iranians know it’s messaging, and for some reason, NSA believes it’s actual f—ing intelligence,’ former CENTCOM intelligence officer tells the Free Beacon Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine shows a test of the bomb used in the attack on the Fordow plant (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The top-secret Defense