Better to remain silent ...

Protesters carry Iranian national flags and posters while chanting anti-US and Israel slogans in Tehran, Iran.
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As one who has worked for himself for years, you learn never to talk about anything until the check clears. Whatever is discussed, you never talk about it until it's a done deal because if you don't, you look like a fool. As an odd but relevant segue to this blurb's main topic, bunker buster bombs, Trump and Iran, a good friend of mine, who actually IS a nuclear scientist, said, It won't work. Why? Because BBs have but 5000 lbs of explosives connected to 25,000 lbs of passive casing, resulting in real destructive power but not enough to obliterate Iran's nuke site Fordo 
as Fordo's too deep.

The satellite imagery, provided by Maxar Technologies, shows vehicles at the
Fordo Enrichment Facility on June 19, 2025

Any potential strike also faces the challenge of actually reaching the facility. Fordo sits an estimated 80 meters (260 feet) under rock and soil. That would require a weapon like a U.S. “bunker-buster” bomb, a 30,000-pound explosive known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Israel is not known to have a similarly powerful conventional weapon.

To whit

Airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb,
 at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri, 2023. (U.S. Air Force via AP)

The latest GBU-57 A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb in the American arsenal. The roughly 30,000 pound precision-guided bomb is designed to attack deeply buried and hardened bunkers and tunnels, according to the U.S. Air Force.

It’s believed to be able to penetrate about 200 feet (61 meters) below the surface before exploding, and the bombs can be dropped one after another, effectively drilling deeper and deeper with each successive blast. It was not immediately known how many were used in the Sunday morning strike.

End result

An initial classified US assessment of Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend says they did not destroy two of the sites and likely only set back the nuclear program by a few months, according to two people familiar with the report.

The report produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency – the intelligence arm of the Pentagon – concluded key components of the nuclear program, including centrifuges, were capable of being restarted within months.

The report also found that much of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be put to use for a possible nuclear weapon was moved before the strikes and may have been moved to other secret nuclear sites maintained by Iran.

Needless to say ...

FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!

In closing ...

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