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Most recently, this past summer, Trump dropped 14 30,000-pound bunker busters on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
Tehran wanted the war to end, especially after the U.S. bombed its three main nuclear sites with bunker busters.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
Israel’s Operation Rising Lion and U.S. bunker buster bombs on various nuclear sites on June 21 was the culmination of that strategy.
—Roya Boroumand, Time, 9 July 2025
The Twelve-Day War between Israel and Iran in June concluded shortly after the United States intervened by bombing Iranian nuclear sites with 30,000-pound bunker busters dropped by strategic B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by the Associated Press show Iranian officials at Fordo on Monday likely examining the damage caused by American bunker busters.
—Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
Several of the stealth warplanes, the only ones capable of carrying the Pentagon’s most powerful bunker buster, headed west over the Pacific Ocean.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 23 June 2025
The bunker buster bombs are widely viewed as the only conventional, non-nuclear weapons capable of inflicting serious damage on the Fordo nuclear facility, which is built into the side of a mountain.
—Kevin Breuninger,christina Wilkie, CNBC, 22 June 2025
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Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
Tehran wanted the war to end, especially after the U.S. bombed its three main nuclear sites with bunker busters.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
Israel’s Operation Rising Lion and U.S. bunker buster bombs on various nuclear sites on June 21 was the culmination of that strategy.
—Roya Boroumand, Time, 9 July 2025
The Twelve-Day War between Israel and Iran in June concluded shortly after the United States intervened by bombing Iranian nuclear sites with 30,000-pound bunker busters dropped by strategic B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by the Associated Press show Iranian officials at Fordo on Monday likely examining the damage caused by American bunker busters.
—Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
Several of the stealth warplanes, the only ones capable of carrying the Pentagon’s most powerful bunker buster, headed west over the Pacific Ocean.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 23 June 2025
The bunker buster bombs are widely viewed as the only conventional, non-nuclear weapons capable of inflicting serious damage on the Fordo nuclear facility, which is built into the side of a mountain.
—Kevin Breuninger,christina Wilkie, CNBC, 22 June 2025
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“Bunker buster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunker%20buster. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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