‘Brightest explosion that I’ve ever seen’: inside US effort to develop a bomb for Iran’s nuclear sites

GBU-57 test footage c DoD

Source: US Department of Defense

The US military’s top officer says development of the bunker-busting 13,600kg (30,000lb) GBU-57 bomb began 15 years ago and involved significant use of supercomputers.

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