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A host of U.S. B-2 stealth bombers dropped massive GBU-57 “Bunker Buster” bombs on Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. President Donald Trump called it a “spectacular military success,” claiming the strikes obliterated Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But the dust has settled, and the U.S. military now admits the operation was a failure. The truth is, those bombs never stood a chance against Iran’s mountain fortresses. Here’s why.

The GBU-57, a 30,000-pound behemoth, is the stuff of military legend. It’s designed to punch through concrete and rock, burrowing deep before exploding. On paper, it sounds unstoppable—penetrating up to 60 meters of standard concrete under perfect conditions. But Iran’s nuclear sites aren’t standard. Fordow, carved into a mountainside, sits over 650 meters beneath granite and ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC). Natanz isn’t much shallower. This isn’t just concrete—it’s a special blend engineered to absorb kinetic force, not just deflect it. Against UHPC, experts say the GBU-57 might manage 10-15 meters, tops. That’s like trying to crack a walnut with a toothpick when the nut’s buried under a mountain.

The U.S. sent six B-2 bombers, each carrying two of these rare bombs—only about 25 exist, by the way. The plan was bold: fly into Iran’s heavily guarded airspace, drop the payload, and cripple the nuclear program. But Iran’s defenses aren’t just radar and missiles; they’re geography itself. Fordow’s tunnels, once used by the Revolutionary Guard, are so deep even the Pentagon’s own assessments doubted success. One defense official, speaking anonymously, said, “We knew it was a long shot. The bombs can’t reach that deep, not through granite and UHPC.” Yet the mission went ahead, fueled by bravado and political pressure.

The human cost of this gamble stings. Pilots risked their lives, flying lumbering B-2s into hostile skies. Families back at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri waited, hearts in throats, for news their loved ones made it home. They did—Trump confirmed all planes returned safely—but for what? Iran’s state media reported only surface damage, like collapsed entrance tunnels. The nuclear core, buried far below, remains untouched. The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran even claimed no radioactive contamination occurred, a small mercy in a failed strike.

This wasn’t just a military misstep; it was a wake-up call. The U.S. and Israel have long seen Iran’s nuclear program as a threat, but bombing it away isn’t as simple as Hollywood makes it seem. Israel tried before, hitting Natanz with cyberattacks and airstrikes, but Fordow’s depth has always been the real challenge. Israeli officials, like Ambassador Yechiel Leiter, begged for U.S. help, knowing their own bombs couldn’t reach it. Now, with the U.S. strike falling short, the world faces a tense reality: Iran’s nuclear sites are still there, and retaliation looms. Tehran’s hardliners are already promising a response, and the region teeters on the edge of wider conflict.

Trump’s boasts on social media can’t change the math. No matter how many “bunker busters” you drop, 60 meters of penetration won’t touch a facility 650 meters deep. It’s not about bigger bombs; it’s about facing the limits of raw power. As one analyst put it, “You’d need a Death Star, not a B-2.” For now, Iran’s nuclear ambitions endure, and the U.S. must reckon with a humbling truth: some mountains are just too tough to crack.

The bigger problem here is the fact that the West has become a home for a section of humanity beholden to violence and massacres. Most times, we excuse their primitive penchants for genocides and ethnic cleansing against their real or perceived adversaries, but the reality is that wars, bombs, assassinations, mass murders and state destabilisation programmes, have now become permanent features in Western/NATO foreign policy pursuits..

World wars 1 and 2, Vietnam, Korean wars, destabilisation of South America, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria.., the list is endless
Now, Iran! Not to talk of places like the Congo, Biafra, South Africa, Algeria , Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, Grenada, Laos, Cambodia..., conflicts where powerful western nations found ways to insert themselves in the middle by backing the wrong sides all for pecuniary interests.

As long as the West sees the solution of every major global conflicts from the barrel of the gun, the world will know no peace. Ordering nations up and down like kindergartens, while assassinating their leaders for fun, is not diplomacy. Such practices share a family resemblance with the hobbesian antics of the prehistoric era!
Getting away with such acts also questions the relevance of the The United Nations Organisation. If the UN is so incapable of warding off these sort of conflicts/actions, of what relevance is the Organisation in these days and times?

Lol.. you'll be alright,no be to dey write epistle full ground.

owobokiri:
The bigger problem here is the fact that the West has become a home for a section of humanity beholden to violence and massacres. Most times, we excuse their primitive penchants for genocides and ethnic cleansing against their real or perceived adversaries, but the reality is that wars, bombs, assassinations, mass murders and state destabilisation programmes, have now become permanent features in Western/NATO foreign policy pursuits..

World wars 1 and 2, Vietnam, Korean wars, destabilisation of South America, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria.., the list is endless
Now, Iran! Not to talk of places like the Congo, Biafra, South Africa, Algeria , Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, Grenada, Laos, Cambodia..., conflicts where powerful western nations found ways to insert themselves in the middle by backing the wrong sides all for pecuniary interests.

As long as the West sees the solution of every major global conflicts from the barrel of the gun, the world will know no peace. Ordering nations up and down like kindergartens, while assassinating their leaders for fun, is not diplomacy. Such practices share a family resemblance with the hobbesian antics of the prehistoric era!
Getting away with such acts also questions the relevance of the The United Nations Organisation. If the UN is so incapable of warding off these sort of conflicts/actions, of what relevance is the Organisation in these days and times?

The UN was mainly created because of third world countries but some are beginning to rise up to the threat even the UN itself possess.

Uptownerd:
A host of U.S. B-2 stealth bombers dropped massive GBU-57 “Bunker Buster” bombs on Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. President Donald Trump called it a “spectacular military success,” claiming the strikes obliterated Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But the dust has settled, and the U.S. military now admits the operation was a failure. The truth is, those bombs never stood a chance against Iran’s mountain fortresses. Here’s why.

You can't win a war against a more powerful enemy through propaganda. Once G7 said Iran can never have nukes we all knew that Iran was toast.

iran should Make peace and move on.

One thing is to bomb, another thing is to stop why you had to bomb in the first place.

Let's see what Happens going forward.

Iran had come out to say they evacuated the sutes before the bombing but you are here claiming it was unsuccessful

For 47 years USA has been in talk with Iran on the nuclear weapon I mean common Iran na mumu strong head country with no balls and visions just as North Korea is doing now for 28years now USA has been asking North Korea to stop building is nuclear weapon but they will not listen

Pay attention in physics class folks.

Just to remind the public, Chernobyl, Fukushima and more recently Zaporizhzhia.

In Zaporizhzhia, Russia struck close, Europe went into panic, because of the possible leak.
Any disruption, no matter how little is detrimental to a nuclear enrichment site. Switching off centrifuges isn’t a key start process. Not cooling the centrifuges/ destroyed air vents/Failure to evacuate nuclear waste is very dangerous and lastly decay, the more enriched a metal is, the more unstable it is. Unattended to the nuclear sites are a threat to Iran itself first and the Middle East.

Iran should join its brothers in the emirates and Saudi, build the Middle East collectively. Eschew its oppressive policies

Baxilexi:
Pay attention in physics class folks.

Just to remind the public, Chernobyl, Fukushima and more recently Zaporizhzhia.

In Zaporizhzhia, Russia struck close, Europe went into panic, because of the possible leak.
Any disruption, no matter how little is detrimental to a nuclear enrichment site. Switching off centrifuges isn’t a key start process. Not cooling the centrifuges/ destroyed air vents/Failure to evacuate nuclear waste is very dangerous and lastly decay, the more enriched a metal is, the more unstable it is. Unattended to the nuclear sites are a threat to Iran itself first and the Middle East.

Iran should join its brothers in the emirates and Saudi, build the Middle East collectively. Eschew its oppressive policies

"Oppressive policies"?
How ? Where?
Is Iran oppressing Isreal? No! Rather it is Isreal that is oppressing Gaza, West Bank, Syria, Iraq and now Iran!
Is Iran oppressing the US? No! Basically, the US is oppressing every middle eastern country. So what do you mean?

You want Iran to join the likes of Saudi Arabia to build the middle east, yet Saudi is the motherland of all Sunni terrorist organisations. Saudi Arabia directly funded the madrasas.., the training ground for all sorts of terrorists

I do t even understand how you guys think k

I mean France was the first and only country that tested a nuclear device in the open in Africa. France uranium sites in Niger Republic have become a radiation hellhole in northern Niger. NATO countries gifted white south Africans with nukes, yet it is the Iranians that are the devil's...

Makes no sense to me

owobokiri:
"Oppressive policies"?
How ? Where?
Is Iran oppressing Isreal? No! Rather it is Isreal that is oppressing Gaza, West Bank, Syria, Iraq and now Iran!
Is Iran oppressing the US? No! Basically, the US is oppressing every middle eastern country. So what do you mean?

You want Iran to join the likes of Saudi Arabia to build the middle east, yet Saudi is the motherland of all Sunni terrorist organisations. Saudi Arabia directly funded the madrasas.., the training ground for all sorts of terrorists

I do t even understand how you guys think k

I mean France was the first and only country that tested a nuclear device in the open in Africa. France uranium sites in Niger Republic have become a radiation hellhole in northern Niger. NATO countries gifted white south Africans with nukes, yet it is the Iranians that are the devil's...

Makes no sense to me

Let’s start with a few questions…

Are you aware that Iran has a charter that wishes death upon all Jews?
Are you aware that the state sponsored groups that attacked Israel even when the countries only crime at the time was occupying the West Bank were sponsored by Iran?
Are you aware of the cause of the revolution in Iran?
Are you aware that during the era of the Shah, that Israel, Iran and the US were allies?


marg bar Israeel (death to Israel) and marg bar Amrika (death to America) emanated from what seemed to be a nearby training camp for the Basij, a volunteer militia run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Both slogans had been absorbed into the fabric of Iran’s revolutionary landscape. They could be seen emblazoned on buildings and were a staple chant at Friday prayers. “Death to Israel” was even graffitied in a section of Isfahan’s Naqsh-e Jahan Square, a Unesco world heritage site.

Let’s start with these…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/iran-israel-us-alliance-and-enemies


Lastly, oppressive policies, I meant internally;
On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini,[a] also known as Jina Amini,[b][1][2][3] died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran's government, had arrested Amini for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards.

Iran supreme leader dey inside cave dey write him will, you dey Nigeria dey yan cho cho cho.

They bombed the shit out of Iran. The propagandists are now coming up with lies. Real war is not by making noise.

So people wen get satellite vision go fail right must b joking it's very much successful ok na usa oo

owobokiri:
"Oppressive policies"?
How ? Where?
Is Iran oppressing Isreal? No! Rather it is Isreal that is oppressing Gaza, West Bank, Syria, Iraq and now Iran!
Is Iran oppressing the US? No! Basically, the US is oppressing every middle eastern country. So what do you mean?

You want Iran to join the likes of Saudi Arabia to build the middle east, yet Saudi is the motherland of all Sunni terrorist organisations. Saudi Arabia directly funded the madrasas.., the training ground for all sorts of terrorists

I do t even understand how you guys think k

I mean France was the first and only country that tested a nuclear device in the open in Africa. France uranium sites in Niger Republic have become a radiation hellhole in northern Niger. NATO countries gifted white south Africans with nukes, yet it is the Iranians that are the devil's...

Makes no sense to me

This guy it seems like u're new to dis conflict between Iran and Isreal
Iran has always been oppressing the sovereign state of Israel by sponsoring the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and Katab-Hezbollah of iraq against Israel and u're here denying it.... like i have always been saying islamist will always be the of this world..... Irans supreme Leader has openly been advocating for erasing Israel off the map and u think that is not oppression? We all know what region/religion u all belong to.

owobokiri:
The bigger problem here is the fact that the West has become a home for a section of humanity beholden to violence and massacres. Most times, we excuse their primitive penchants for genocides and ethnic cleansing against their real or perceived adversaries, but the reality is that wars, bombs, assassinations, mass murders and state destabilisation programmes, have now become permanent features in Western/NATO foreign policy pursuits..

World wars 1 and 2, Vietnam, Korean wars, destabilisation of South America, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria.., the list is endless
Now, Iran! Not to talk of places like the Congo, Biafra, South Africa, Algeria , Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, Grenada, Laos, Cambodia..., conflicts where powerful western nations found ways to insert themselves in the middle by backing the wrong sides all for pecuniary interests.

As long as the West sees the solution of every major global conflicts from the barrel of the gun, the world will know no peace. Ordering nations up and down like kindergartens, while assassinating their leaders for fun, is not diplomacy. Such practices share a family resemblance with the hobbesian antics of the prehistoric era!
Getting away with such acts also questions the relevance of the The United Nations Organisation. If the UN is so incapable of warding off these sort of conflicts/actions, of what relevance is the Organisation in these days and times?

It is funny how people like you vilify the west. Again as long as a group of people think killing and blowing up everything is a viable solution to others not serving their god. Then Genocide will be their end.

When your supreme leader is killed ,u'd wrote another scathing epistle against the west, Iran wants to go kim jong way ,play in a game of deterrence through weapons stocking, that game threatens others and they'd make sure u'd loose ur reputation, the west looks like just society on paper. In reality they control the narrative,and it's all about interest. Why is Iran interested in death of America and Israel?

.....ilé yáa awon sayentists, jiografist and teknolojist, let dem know

LeeSmart:
This guy it seems like u're new to dis conflict between Iran and Isreal
Iran has always been oppressing the sovereign state of Israel by sponsoring the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and Katab-Hezbollah of iraq against Israel and u're here denying it.... like i have always been saying islamist will always be the of this world..... Irans supreme Leader has openly been advocating for erasing Israel off the map and u think that is not oppression? We all know what region/religion u all belong to.

You're as ignorant as they come.
And I am not a Muslim! I Don't even know what makes you think that it is the duty of the Christians to defend Isreal. Do the Jews defend we Christians that much? Nations are fighting for the spoils of war, and you are here shouting yourself hoarse over religion. Typical inebriated Nigerian! Have you seen Jews spitting at Christians in Isreal? Jews are not Christians, a d may even like other religions more than Christianity. So unlike you, i am not trapped in those dogmatic enclosures!

Iran is wrong to be calling for the demise of Isreal all the time. That is evil and must be stopped. But is that enough reason for them US and Isreal to be dropping the biggest bombs on the Iranians, killing civilian scientists and their families in their sleep? So what has Isreal been doing since the Iranian revolution of 1979? Are they not calling for the destruction of the Iranians regime?

Do you think that majority of Iranians like
this position? If the majority of Iranians like their leaders, why should the leadership be exterminated to suit your zionist fancy? Do you know that not all Jews are zionists? So stretching your warped logic a bit further, we can also call for the overthrow of the government in Tel Aviv just because a disgruntled segment of the Jewish society wants that?

No nation should exist at the whims and caprices of the other! That's my position. Has nothing to do with religion and all that warped narratives fed to you by the western media. Isreal and Iran have been bellicose and belligerent to each other for decades. Sincere diplomatic engagements are the way to settle such differences in the modern era. Wars should be discouraged..

Leonyluiz:
It is funny how people like you vilify the west. Again as long as a group of people think killing and blowing up everything is a viable solution to others not serving their god. Then Genocide will be their end.

Just in Iraq 🇮🇶, the West has killed more people than the Arabs have done to any other race since the end of world war 2! Direct, remorseless massacres..

Let that sink in..
99% of all conflicts in the Arab world were instigated by the west. Including this very Isreal vs Iran war.
So what are you talking about again.
Free yourself from the grip of the propagandists

Even Ayatollah the supreme leader of Iran will be laugh really hard if he reads your post 😂

Christ4ever:
Even Ayatollah the supreme leader of Iran will be laugh really hard if he reads your post 😂

Show me a single headline in the whole wide world that says Trump actually destroyed the nuclear sites as he claimed.

I'm waiting.

owobokiri:
Just in Iraq 🇮🇶, the West has killed more people than the Arabs have done to any other race since the end of world war 2! Direct, remorseless massacres..

Let that sink in..
99% of all conflicts in the Arab world were instigated by the west. Including this very Isreal vs Iran war.
So what are you talking about again.
Free yourself from the grip of the propagandists

There is nothing sinking in. Go back and read better before coming here and thinking you are dropping knowledge. Don't misinform people with you ideology. The middle-east had severe problems before your so-called non-western saint "Russia" invaded and lost till the time of America.

And have you asked yourself why their neighbors are not quick to jump in and support their people against Israel or America.

Please, either read better before you drop information or you keep quiet and watch it all play out. Stop watching cnn or aljazeera thinking you know facts.

Leonyluiz:
There is nothing sinking in. Go back and read better before coming here and thinking you are dropping knowledge. Don't misinform people with you ideology. The middle-east had severe problems before your so-called non-western saint "Russia" invaded and lost till the time of America.

And have you asked yourself why their neighbors are not quick to jump in and support their people against Israel or America.

Please, either read better before you drop information or you keep quiet and watch it all play out. Stop watching cnn or aljazeera thinking you know facts.

You don't even know anything about what you're talking about. Sooooo full of it, you.
Where did Russia invade? Which country in the middle east was invaded by Russia? When? How?

Russia only sent soldiers to prop up a regime in Afghanistan 🇦🇫. Afghanistan is not middle east. Just another Muslim Asian country like say Pakistan.

Neighbours of Iran jumping in to help Iran? By that you mean countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Qatar?
To start with, Iran is not an Arab country. You most probably don't even know this. Iranians are Persians.

They just happen to be living in close proximity with the Arabs and worship the same God. Again, Iranians are shiites, while most Arabians are Sunni. There has always been a sort of confrontation between those two sects of Islam...

Dude you're way off the mark on this topic 😳
Totally bereft of knowledge. Take your own advice and read up before attacking anyone here..

owobokiri:
You don't even know anything about what you're talking about. Sooooo full of it, you.
Where did Russia invade? Which country in the middle east was invaded by Russia? When? How?

Russia only sent soldiers to prop up a regime in Afghanistan 🇦🇫. Afghanistan is not middle east. Just another Muslim Asian country like say Pakistan.

Neighbours of Iran jumping in to help Iran? By that you mean countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Qatar?
To start with, Iran is not an Arab country. You most probably don't even know this. Iranians are Persians.

They just happen to be living in close proximity with the Arabs and worship the same God. Again, Iranians are shiites, while most Arabians are Sunni. There has always been a sort of confrontation between those two sects of Islam...

Dude you're way off the mark on this topic 😳
Totally bereft of knowledge. Take your own advice and read up before attacking anyone here..

Mr. KNOWLEDGE BOOK. Did you know Iran financed proxy forces against Israel for decades and openly claim death to Israel and America multiple times. Iran directly supported the evolution of a known terrorist organization into a political party that ascended to power in the state of palestine.

And yet some wannabe historian is claiming to know it all opening mouth like fowl bum.

My stance remains. If you are going to claim and actively perpetrate death towards another person or group of persons? Then death be yours and your bloodline. And I feel absolutely no remorse for them.

owobokiri:
You don't even know anything about what you're talking about. Sooooo full of it, you.
Where did Russia invade? Which country in the middle east was invaded by Russia? When? How?

Russia only sent soldiers to prop up a regime in Afghanistan 🇦🇫. Afghanistan is not middle east. Just another Muslim Asian country like say Pakistan.

Neighbours of Iran jumping in to help Iran? By that you mean countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Qatar?
To start with, Iran is not an Arab country. You most probably don't even know this. Iranians are Persians.

They just happen to be living in close proximity with the Arabs and worship the same God. Again, Iranians are shiites, while most Arabians are Sunni. There has always been a sort of confrontation between those two sects of Islam...

Dude you're way off the mark on this topic 😳
Totally bereft of knowledge. Take your own advice and read up before attacking anyone here..

To answer your foremost question. The russia-afghan war happened and pardon me. But if it squacks like a duck, it is a duck. I call all of them middle easterners. If a group of people who think you deserve death because you dont serve their God in their own country and go to another man's country and expect those countries to change their way of life to suite them and when they don't, these riff raffs result to killing and blowing things up to a point that scandanavian europe is literally not allowing them in their country anymore.

They need to be dealth with. People like you are quick to blame the west for all your problems. It is never your fault, it is because they colonized you today or they racially profiled you tomorrow. No accountability. Always the victim.

Leonyluiz:
To answer your foremost question. The russia-afghan war happened and pardon me. But if it squacks like a duck, it is a duck. I call all of them middle easterners. If a group of people who think you deserve death because you dont serve their God in their own country and go to another man's country and expect those countries to change their way of life to suite them and when they don't, these riff raffs result to killing and blowing things up to a point that scandanavian europe is literally not allowing them in their country anymore.

They need to be dealth with. People like you are quick to blame the west for all your problems. It is never your fault, it is because they colonized you today or they racially profiled you tomorrow. No accountability. Always the victim.

It's funny that you don't know that the West is the cause of all your problems.

This is how they know that their propaganda is complete - An unknown entity hyperventilating over Westerners and wishing death on people who don't even know you exist.