John Paul Rathbone and Ian Bott – The Financial Times June 18, 2025
(Scroll on down for a video presentation with MIT Prof Ted Postol & Lt Col Daniel Davis)
Should the US enter the conflict between Israel and Iran, it would be expected to play a key role in destroying Iran’s underground uranium enrichment facilities.
That task would almost certainly fall to a select number of US bomber planes that are big enough to deliver a 30,000lb precision-guided bomb, known as the GBU-57 E/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP — the world’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
Dropped from a B2 stealth bomber, the 6m-long MOP can reportedly penetrate with sheer kinetic force more than 60 metres of rock and soil — depending on the earth’s hardness — before exploding. Because it is precision-guided, multiple bombs can in theory be dropped on a single spot.
That gives the MOP, which is more powerful than any known conventional bomb in Israel’s arsenal, potentially enough impact to destroy much of Iran’s underground enrichment facilities, especially the Natanz site, which is thought to be buried 20 metres underground and encased in some 2 metres of reinforced concrete.
However, it may not be enough to destroy the more-heavily protected Fordow facility, which is buried inside a mountain under as much as 80 metres of rock and soil — even though the bomb was developed for that specific purpose.
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has said that some of Fordow’s most sensitive facilities may be buried even deeper, as much as half a mile underground.
“I have been there many times,” he told the FT this month. “To get there you take a spiral tunnel down, down, down.”
The lack of any guarantee that a successful bomb strike, or even a series of strikes, would destroy most or all of any already enriched nuclear stockpile in Fordow recalls a similar predicament faced by the US in the past.
When the US was contemplating a pre-emptive bombing campaign against Soviet nuclear weapons stationed in Cuba during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, a key concern was a potential failure to destroy all the targets — a risk calculus that prompted President Kennedy to opt for a naval blockade and diplomacy instead.
“The US Air Force were only confident that they could destroy 85 per cent of the targets — which is why there were also plans for a follow-up ground invasion,” said Robert Pape, a US military historian and author of Bombing to Win, a landmark survey of 20th century bombing campaigns.
“In the Iranian case, how can the US National Security Council be sure that they are going to get everything? That is the big issue,” he said.
Manufactured by Boeing, the MOP has been tested at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico but has never been used in active combat. That potentially introduces a second problem.
“To destroy Fordow, which the MOP was explicitly designed for, would probably take at least two bombs, each hitting exactly the same spot,” Pape said.
“That may be fine, and I am sure the US Air Force has the technical capabilities. But it’s never been done before in a real war.”
An earlier large-scale US bomb, the 22,000lb Massive Ordnance Air Blast or MOAB, colloquially known as the Mother of All Bombs, was less powerful but was used to devastating effect in Afghanistan in 2017. It was dropped on a cave complex operated by an Islamic State affiliate in Nangarhar Province.
The MOP — which was developed from 2002, first deployed in 2011, and periodically upgraded since then — is more targeted than the MOAB: its explosive charge is bigger and is carried inside an extremely rigid metal casing that allows for penetration before explosion.
The US arsenal is thought to contain about 20 MOPs. Each bomb costs about $4mn, based on a 2011 $28mn US Air Force contract for eight of them.
Only the B2 Spirit Stealth bomber is configured to carry and deliver the MOP. There are 20 B2 bombers in service, according to the US Air Force, each of them capable of carrying two MOPs, one in each of its bomb bays.
The bomber, made by Northrop Grumman, has an unfuelled range of 11,000km, or 19,000km with one mid-air refuelling — making almost any target in the world reachable. Despite the fearsome capabilities of both the MOP and B2 bomber, any mission to destroy the Fordow plant would face other tactical difficulties, Pape said.
The first is that to drop more than one bomb on the facility might require the B2 bomber to loiter above its target, becoming vulnerable to Iranian air defences.
“The B2 is a stealth bomber, but it’s designed to avoid radar — it’s not stealthy in every aspect,” Pape said. “For example, it has a very flat bottom — which can make it as vulnerable as a 737 plane to anti-air missiles.”
The second challenge would involve clearing a safe flight path for the B2 bomber to its target. That could be done by using anti-radar cruise missiles that could take out any Iranian radar installations that Israeli forces have not already destroyed.
“But Iran may well have anticipated the US cutting such a corridor,” Pape said. “The bombing raid may well work — but it would need to be embarked on knowing that it has never been done before.”
BUNKER BUSTER BOMB Myth /MIT Prof Ted Postol & Lt Col Daniel Davis
Daniel Davis – Deep Dive June 18, 2025
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Nigel Farage says he wants Iran’s regime ‘wiped out’
Story by David Williamson
there were some who said all along farage was in the pocket of the jew
I am not going to read a propaganda piece.
The intention is to break into a deeply buried facility where there’s nuclear materials.
If you manage to do this with a conventional armed weapon, there’s going to be a radiation leak. Given that we’re dealing with thicko Nazis, they don’t give a toss.
The only way to prevent a radiation leak, is to use a nuclear armed bunker buster bomb, so once it enters the facility, the detonation melts that rock into glass, and it self seals.
Alistair Crooke says the main nuclear facility is half a mile beneath a carefully chosen mountain, so that’s around 800 metres deep.
It’s highly unlikely to succeed, so you blow off 200 metres of mountain with a nuke, and the radiation will spread around the world, but as I say, they are Nazis.
Donald Hitler has approved his strike plans, but this means nothing.
Where will his B2s land, because the runway at Diago Garcia will be destroyed, so will they head to Cyprus, which then becomes a target. It’s also likely Iran will shoot these B2s down. Remember, they must get over the target, so Iran doesn’t need to search that hard, because they’ll know exactly where they are going, and I’m sure Russia and China will provide intel. They’ll know when these planes take off, in fact, the US must inform Russia when they fly, and if they don’t tell Russia, they become legitimate Russian targets.
Given the illegallity of this attack, Russia would be justified in bringing these planes down.
Scandal-hit nursing regulator wrongly approved hundreds of nurses to work in UK, damning report reveals
Story Rebecca Thomas • 8h •
Nurses coming in from africa some with AIDS and some cant speak english
was obvious even to blind freddie this was wrong
give the jobs to our girls
even some one with the brains of a footballer could see this importing was wrong
PS get rid of that idiot carl jones
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MADNESS
Attorney general warns UK joining war on Iran may be illegal
Story by Archie Mitchell • 48m
this is crazy we should be helping iran against israel
jews have always been our enemy
have you been following the starmer
rent boy story ?
zelenski sent starmer several ” nice boys”
lol and in exchange for 300 milion pounds of our money boris johnston was sent several nice blondes
how disgusting is uk politics ?
Put THIS item in your notebook for future-reference:
The “fall-out” from Uncle Sam’s Bunker Busters won’t be “nukular”..
but Humpty Trumpty – AND America! – having a GREAT FALL.
They mention the problem of contractors exaggerating the capabilities of their weapons, but the opposite problem is big too–traitors telling politicians that x, y or z is NOT possible
udi Dench, Malala and Stanley Tucci join call to ‘end UK complicity’ in the Gaza
genocide
Sky News can exclusively reveal the Bond actress, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Conclave actor are among a whole host of public figures who’ve added their names to the letter to stop israels genocide
At the end of May, Sky News revealed about 300 actors, bands, singers, activists and sportspeople signed the letter, organised by refugee charity Choose Love, calling on Sir Keir to suspend all UK weapons and torture equipment sales and licences to Israel.
Place yer bets..place yer bets..
‘ow far dy’a think them there yankee missiles can penetrate..dy’a think it’s further than there wit..
come on now..place yer bets ..place yer bets..
One of those needs to be stuffed up Satanyahoo’s ass.
This bomb is made for tv fake war and fake battles , to be dropped off near a “bunker” , to try to kill as many civilians , generals , and “scientists” , all hiding underneath some mountain. It’s only good when the intended target doesnt have defense missiles, like over some village, because they are having a wedding or something. The manufacturers of this weapon are in need of some profits at the moment .
Will humanity ever see they are controlled by a satanic cult that enjoys destroying them?
Problem is , there are no ‘nuclear facilities’, its all a hoax. Iran is in on the scam too, being ruled by Donmeh (Sabbatean Jews who ‘converted’ to Islam; similar to conversos who became ‘christians’) who are simply playing their assigned role to advance Jewish ‘end days’ fantasy & the appearance of mongrel moshiach.
I guess they think they can just saunter in at leisure, fly into Iran towards what must now be one of the most guarded places on earth and just drop a bomb or two where they please? Those B2 planes may look like something Batman would fly but there are no superheroes in the real world. Either they’ll be amazing pilots or they’ll be dead pilots and it’s probably the latter. The US Air Force should tell Trump those bombs were designed for the Taliban, maybe Hamas tunnels, but they are not for the likes of Iran with Russian fighters and domestically-built fighters and anti-aircraft systems they must be really itching to try out.
Tories would support Government in joining military fight against Iran
Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said the Conservative Party would support the Government in joining the military fight against Iran if it was deemed necessary.
NO WAY israel and its jews has been our enemy since allowed back by oliver cromwell
the people support iran
Couldn’t we just drop our 20 MOP super bombs on Israel, thus achieving world peace?
Is Trump going senile? Whatsamatter with the man?
Latest news https://www.thestar.com/news/world/middle-east/iranian-missiles-hit-a-hospital-and-wound-over-200-israel-threatens-irans-top-leader/article_bf8cb8f6-22b3-5efc-bc4d-1c9e5182ac51.html
WION The World is One News 19 June 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5e6t4Mv4Y
“Iran-Israel War: Iran Unleashes Next-Gen Unstoppable Missile, Barrage Of Missiles Launched | WION
Amid intensifying hostilities between Iran and Israel, reports indicate that Iranian missile strikes have caused structural damage to the Israeli stock exchange building in Tel Aviv ”
The referee is counting / israhell aka 1948 RotSchildstein lies on the canvas / will creme de menthe crypto fake j. Drumpf – aka rigger 2024 – let the proud boys jump in the ring…….
CIA O
Girlie boWhite! Jones says:
“I am not going to read a propaganda piece.”
He is a propaganda piece. Full of shite!
@Machiavelli:
Explain to us how it is all a hoax?
I thought Rixon was not going to entertain NicoX and his wacko followers?
Word on the wire is that there big moves behind the scenes, trying to get an off ramp for Nazi Amerika, and Donald Hitler has been told the consequences of US strike, and now wants out.
On the other end, senior genocidist Nazi Ben-Gvir has hinted at Joolandia using nukes. Estimates suggest one third of Tel Aviv has suffered some level of damage.
Donald Hitler steps back, he a dead moron.
“Couldn’t we just drop our 20 MOP super bombs on Israel, thus achieving world peace?”
The way I read that first was: Can’t we just drop all the MPs on Israel, thus achieving world peace?
Sounds like a good idea doesn’t it? From about 5 miles up…
It looks like Donald Hitler has applied the handbrake for around two weeks, so someone can sort out an off ramp. That someone is probably Putin.
This allows the fighting to continue, but we can’t take DH at his word, and the Israeli Nazis are considering sending elite troops to take out these deep nuclear facilities.
Will Nutanyahu have DH shot. Only if Vance will do what he’s told.
Lerch:
Far as I know Nico is banned. When he was on here I thought his stuff was great, so I did my own research and discovered his version of reality is closest to the ‘truth’. How is it a hoax? Watch 60 Minutes episode ‘Pager Plot’ where Israel reveals everything in global politics is staged by them like ‘Truman Show’.
Yair the son of…..was alone at home when the missile hit in the northern part of Tel Aviv las night
Sunna Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCaMf1kSNmQ
“Israel has been shaken to its core. In a shocking escalation, Iran launched a precision missile strike that killed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s only son. The attack penetrated the very heart of Israel’s leadership and exposed the cracks in its famed security systems.
This powerful video explores the dramatic details of the attack, the emotional aftermath, and what this means for the future of the Middle East. Is this the beginning of a much bigger war?”
(check it out yourself if it Is Real or not….in , his dream called Life)
@ Dan “Can’t we just drop all the MPs on Israel” / a good line / a la what I thought to add to the last gj comment ping pong some hrs ago : Dump Chump Drumpf in Iran)
CIA O
Is it Lolita Trump or Donald Express..?
“Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP” – funny that!!
“Mother of all Bombs” formerly known as MOAB has been upgraded. If that doesn’t sound like proper $cience or at least a name change like turning all the Mileykowski’s into Nutty-yahoo’s and is scribbled about by the Financial Times which of course composes symphonies mostly about profits by the “agents of war” and making quids with super cheap Chinese components and superior slant eyed steel for Muricas Mops busting abilities than the script book of kosherism must have become soiled somewhere below the rainbow of Hollow-wood.
“in this dream called Life” was the original txt / typo or Thiel Karp Palantir playing their harp.?Anyway…
Mahmood OD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDAZyw_16tA ¡ Iran Razes Tel Aviv! | Stock Exchange Building Destroyed | Israel’s nuclear threat
Why will this be real ? I took a break to eat something after I found the same news on a youtube channel of an original English guy / so to speak / that link is strangely enough not working any more / its also a good channel imv like Mahmood OD / Kernow Damo….he reported aboutt the Stockexchange showed
vids about the damage & panic + the mossad cyber headquarter in the midst of a densely populated northern part of the city / people living there used as a human shield he suggested…..
Will crypto fake j. Drumpf together with his chabad Schul buddy Meilikovsky aka netanyaWhodid911 go nuclear / till now unclear / did Beijing flew nukes in cargo planes to Tehran / North Korea sides with Iran too…
Mahmood OD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsHmF3ICgqA Trump Pulls Back | Chinese Warships Arrive | Iran: “No Ceasefire” | Live +
Good Night,,,,
CIA O
Iran’s parliamentary bldg. is a giant pyramid with 33 windows. Iran is under Judeo-Masonic control like every other country in this world. Iranian govt. is working with Ziostan govt. to orchestrate greater regional war and eventually ramping up to WW3 — BRICS vs. U.S./NATO.
Public failure to recognize nuclear hoax is allowing ZOG to use it as a pretext/ casus belli for war just like WMDs in Iraq. Iran has no underground nuclear facilities because nukes don’t exist.
Fake Bikini atoll test – 1 minute- blatantly obvious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dveVOMg0ix4
Notice Cumulus clouds are undisturbed by blast wave. A real explosion would have whisked them away. Also, ocean is undisturbed- no tsunami. Atoll should have been inundated. We’re told nukes can vaporize a city in a millisecond but they don’t disturb the clouds or ocean?? LMAO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvrbVTUkAq0&t=143s
4 minute vid – official govt. / military newsreel footage with good analysis
At 50 sec. mark narrator points out man standing at zero point [ alleged center of blast ] How can we differentiate that spot from any other spot in Hiroshima. One explosion should have a center point/crater and a circular pattern of destruction emanating out radially. We should see surviving structures bending outward, away from the center point. Tree stumps and telephone poles are straight up and down.
We should also see a radius of damage from center point where NOTHING exists. The zero point and outward for a great distance should not have any debris as we’re told the temps are a million degrees at center of blast. Even the ground would be vaporized. How long would it take for a million degrees F to dissipate to a point where it would not vaporize every material? Steel vaporizes at just over 5K Fahrenheit.
We see uniform pattern of damage instead. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were firebombed just like dozens of other Japanese and German cities at end of WW2.
Japanese started clean up and rebuild of H and N immediately. We’re told nuclear blast radiation doesn’t dissipate for centuries with the long half-life of Uranium and Plutonium. Is it plausible that Japan would have rebuilt cities on top of a radioactive wasteland?
lerch@ pnly some wacko followers get the push
none of us can understand why that ” natzi natzi ” guy is still here
The Iranians have long foreseen an attack by the Axis of Evil (UK-US-Israel), so it is likely that key sites will be virtually indestructible. That means that the crazies in DC and Tel Aviv (London might baulk at this step), may resort to a nuke.
“Machiavelli” has always been Nico X
best bomb is the underpants bomb
lots of small boys give up their underpants after a hot day
and when all the homosexuals run out to sniff them
we open fire
this would kill off all the poofters weirdos and carl jones types
Good post Markie…
One doesn’t hear so much about the so called “dirty bomb” these days: A MOAB type bomb seeded with radioactive material and metals like say magnesium to provide some flash. I suspect these were used in Nevada et al and ascribed as nukes.
But yeh, “dirty bombs” along with “HIV /aids” , “peak oil” all down the memory hole and forgotten by most folks. Some of us don’t forget though.
TPTB might seed a MOAB and create a nuke narrative.
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Something else that I’ll just throw out there on a bit of a tangent, but I think is interesting:
The cover story for Roswell was that a “Project Mogul” balloon had gone down. “Apparently” this was used to “detect” Soviet “Nuclear detonations”.
No one apart from me has mentioned this to my knowledge, but coming from the phony nukes angle, this by itself undermines the “official” Roswell narrative. And to complete this little detour, I commend Nick Redfern – an otherwise conventional “aliens are visiting us ufologist” – who has speculated that the small bodies recovered in July 1947 were test subjects forced to experience high altitude tests. So, originally the “flying saucer” idea itself was put out to deflect from the use of human test subjects – with maybe progeria (inflated heads). But the “cover story” might have subsequently proved more problematic than the human rights angle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria
So I suggest the small human bodies emanated from some gondola type contraption attached high altitude balloons. In this regard we might also consider the space suited individuals being lifted in capsules before jumping by parachute to earth.
There was an intriguing 1941 crash in Missouri with retrospectively attributed “aliens” in the “craft”. The book “MO41, The Bombshell Before Roswell” covers this. The testimony if not the conclusions are compelling. And the like of Stanton Friedman et al can’t trot out “aliens watching nuke facilities” for this case. To say nothing of the propensity of ETs crashing in huge numbers over the USA in the late 1940s. (Think of that: Often said to be thousands years in advance of us but needing another decade – paralleling our own increased aeronautics during this time – before they could avoid crashing in New Mexico.)
An area worthy of some research is that between the US, Japan, and Germany in terms of high altitude medicine during the 1940s. We must also recall the faking of the Apollo programme that would have been informed by space medicine research.
👉 Kernow Damo 20 June https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JZsbmB0SHY netanyaWhodid911 aka Meilikovsky ” has made another fine mess for himself / as the playing the victim card this time blows up in his face!
4.40 ” the truth of the matter is the Soroka hospital was never a military target (( see the map 🔎))
2 nearby military targets : the IDF C 41 HQ a computer & Intelligence headquarters & the Gavyam Negev Technologies Park……both closely alligned to israhells military industrial complex…”
One India 8 hrs ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjzTt4XV6kw Khorramshahr-4 ‘Doomsday Missiles’ on Haifa; 80 Israeli Targets in One Strike?
These long-range weapons are believed to be capable of striking up to 80 targets in a single coordinated attack. Footage shows massive explosions / raging fires 6 widespread panic as the city reels from the assault.”
TOI 1 hour ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVt8p7DAcBQ ” ‘Real Nightmare Yet To Come’: Iran Reveals Big Missile Secret; IRGC’s Stunning israhell
Top Iranian general Mohsen Rezaee claimed that Tehran has used less than 30 per cent of its operational capacity in the conflict. He has also demanded the expulsion of Israel and its ally United States from the Middle East region. ”
((( @ markie https://old.bitchute.com/video/jNlzXwNyG8hq/ Crypto fake joos & masonry in Iran (worth ✡️ keeping✡️ in min / And indeed / never been in Cafe Oppenheimer
http://www.discoveringislam.org/Khomeini_british_agent.htm Khameiny sits often under a portrait of Khomeiny….aya aya tollah tollah / balletje balletje ….could be too imv )))
TOI 21 June https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIOocfQ8ns ” Iran’s ‘Monsters’ Bombard Tel Aviv, Overwhelm Iron Dome | Missiles Turn Fireballs, Dance In Sky
All Israel News 15 hrs ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5UKmB9o2B8 “The Missile That Erased the Future”: Footage from the Devastation at Weizmann Institute | KAN 11
” For the first time, chilling footage has emerged from the site of the Iranian missile strike on Israel’s prestigious Weizmann Institute of Science.
For days, access to the area was restricted — but now, the full extent of the devastation is revealed. Advanced laboratories were destroyed & years of pioneering research were wiped out in an instant.
Scientists stand stunned before the ruins of what was once a hub of global scientific innovation — a place where discoveries meant to benefit all of humanity were being made….”
comments / ” You killed their scientist and they paid you in kind.” / ” Your conclusion is on very solid ground! That one hurt them for real! That was personal! … Iran is taking damage yes! But the damage being inflicted in the heart of israhell is unheard of! ”
” OMG!!! They are talking about ethics, morals and humanity. Where was it when Gaza was being flattened?!”
Remember the female IDF officer who spoke out : “7 October a false flag to flatten Gaza”
(creepy crypto fake j. Drumpf aka rigger 2024 wants his Gaza casinos & hotels before he returns Jenseits to sewer rat rebbe Scneersons – his moschiah – hell from whence he came)
CIA O