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What does "unauthorized" mean here? Who needs to authorize weapons-grade uranium enrichment?

The GBU-57 is dope. Really curious to see how well it worked here



Unauthorized in the sense of a violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory. Whether Iran is actually violating the treaty is a matter of some dispute.

https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/nuclear/npt/



It's literally an anvil they drop out of the sky hoping to punch through structures like an aerial drilling platform. I guess it's dope, but it seems like cartoon armament to me.


> I guess it's dope, but it seems like cartoon armament to me.

The first bunker-buster :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_bomb

"According to an anecdote, the idea arose after a group of Royal Navy officers saw a similar, but fictional, bomb depicted in the 1943 Walt Disney animated propaganda film Victory Through Air Power,[Note 10] and the name Disney was consequently given to the weapon."


Curious too. I can’t even imagine driving a 16ton nail through hundreds of feet of hard rock and reinforced concrete.


Not physically possible. You can get through hundreds of feet of loosely compacted soil and gravel but high performance concrete? 8-15m max.

If they built the facility out of 30,000psi concrete, they'd be lucky to pen 4 meters with a direct hit, nevermind the 80m of limestone above it.




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