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The Iranian installation whose “size and configuration is not compatible with a peaceful program,” as Obama described, is a well -kept secret. This is what we know about her.
Indestructible, even in the face of the largest bombs. This is how CNN describes the Fordow nuclear complex in Iran. inside a mountain – or rather, several, tunnels – The secret to your defense is the depth: your main rooms will be located about 80 to 90 meters below ground, which puts it out of the range of any known bomb. In addition, Fordow has an ingenious protection against bombs.
“Fordow is actually a project that started during what we call the accelerated nuclear program of the 2000s“, Says David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), an institution based in Washington dedicated to nuclear non-propelling. “The idea was that the Iranians would produce uranium with military degree in this installation, using little enriched uranium from the Iranian Nuclear Civil Program.”
Former US president Barack Obama described this installation as having a “Size and configuration that are not compatible with a peaceful program.”
After, on Friday, Israel attacks Iran targeting its nuclear facilities, there was already Iranian. But for now, the destruction of this nuclear center is far from completing without US help.
The only bomb that can destroy Fordow
According to, there is only one bomb in the world capable of destroying this huge complex –assive Ordnance Penetrator (Mop, also known as GBU-57), a bomb of 13.600 kg.
The problem for Israel is that this country does not have the artillery needed to fire a charge of these. Only the US Air Force B-2 Bombs come close to the depth needed to reach the center. So even if Donald Trump provides this bomb to Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has no ability to detonate it alone.
“Even the GBU-57/B would probably require multiple impacts at the same point to have some hypothesis of penetrating the installation,” concludes a report from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
USA can join Israel
JD Vance, the US Vice President, at X this Tuesday that the US would only use their Armed Forces to achieve goals of their own interest. Trump “may decide that it is necessary to act more to end Iranian enrichment. This decision ultimately fits the president, ”said Vance.
Trump also appealed this Tuesday to Iran’s “unconditional surrender”, and has been positioned alongside Israel. He also said that the US now has the “Total and complete control of the heavens of Iran“.
Under an imminent US attack, the eyes are put in Fordow. Since the beginning of the armed conflict between Israel and Iran, on Friday, 35 women and 10 children have died. There are about 1800 injured.
CAROLINA BASTOS PEREIRA, ZAP //
