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Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on... by arandomusername on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:30PM (#44341797)
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

Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on... by nradov on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:40PM (#44341917)
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/

Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on... by tguvot on Sunday June 22, 2025 @01:06AM (#44343846)
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on... by tptacek on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:40PM (#44341914)
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.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on... by trhway on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:27PM (#44342315)
> 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."

Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on... by cwmoore on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:31PM (#44342354)
Curious too. I can’t even imagine driving a 16ton nail through hundreds of feet of hard rock and reinforced concrete.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on... by missedthecue on Sunday June 22, 2025 @01:53AM (#44344155)
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.