Israel's attack on Iran aimed at destroying its nuclear program has raised speculation about whether the U.S. would use one of America's most powerful weapons to make that happen. The Israeli ...

As the United States dropped 14 bunker buster bombs deployed on the 'B-2 stealth bombers' on Iran's nuclear facilities during the 12-day Israel-Iran war, a former Vietnam War refugee Anh Duong looked ...

Israel asked the U.S. this week for advanced “bunker-buster” bombs and refueling planes that could help in the event of an attack on Iran’s underground nuclear sites, an Israeli official confirmed to ...

WASHINGTON — After the United States dropped 14 “bunker buster” bombs on two nuclear sites in Iran, Anh Duong looked up the weapon’s technical details and felt a rush of familiarity. Duong, 65, is a ...

Chinese military scientists have proposed a way to counter the US Air Force's famed GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP) or bunker busters by revealing an alleged flaw with their design. In a ...

The US Air Force has awarded a contract for the design of a next-generation bunker-buster bomb. The bomb will eventually replace the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP. The MOP ...

The strike on Iranian nuclear sites involved more than 125 U.S. aircraft, including seven B-2 stealth bombers, and 14 30,000 pounds of bunker buster bombs, a top general said at the Pentagon Sunday. A ...

One problem with the “Bunker Buster Bomb” attack in Iran is that it was at least forty-five years too late. Allowing a mob in a country without a then working government to take over the US Embassy ...

Details about the future NGP are limited, but current speculation suggests it could be roughly similar in size to the 30,000-pound “Massive Ordnance Penetrator.” The United States Air Force used its ...

A Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator in testing. Credit: Defense Department For the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Air Force, devoting the time and money to build an ...

Recent events in Iran demonstrate that dropping “bunker buster” bombs on nuclear plants is not an ideal, or even necessarily effective, way to prevent proliferation. It is far preferable to prevent ...