Iran’s hardened, underground nuclear sites are impervious to most conventional weapons — except the U.S.-made 30,000-pound, ...

A crater left by the blast is believed to be more ... Classed as a thermobaric bomb - 'thermo' for heat and 'baric' for pressure, the MOAB features a two stage detonation powered by H6 explosive ...

The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep underground at the Fordow enrichment facility near Tehran are left untouched, ...

To the eye, the crater is probably less obvious than in used ... it's an asteroid bullseye just 20 miles from Moab. "It would have been the equivalent of detonating some several thousand large ...

If the MOAB were to detonate on contact with the ground, a lot of that pressure wave would be sent into the dirt, digging out a small crater around the bomb. Dirt is a lot harder to move than air ...