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What does one do with a 30,000-pound bomb and 90 meters of ancient carbonate rock? For the U.S. Air Force, the solution at ...
A fresh bomb threat targeting the Coimbatore Collectorate triggered a major security scare, prompting an intense search ...
A remote area of Kazakhstan was once home to nearly a quarter of the world’s nuclear testing. The impact on its inhabitants has been devastating. ByAlexandra Genova Photographs byPhil Hatcher ...
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.
Illustration: A June 25, 2025, poster from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) shows unclassified aerial images of ...
The Pentagon on Thursday released an extraordinary number of details about the military's top-secret bombing of Iran's ...
The bombs that the U.S. dropped into two Iranian nuclear facilities were designed specifically for those sites and were the ...
Reaching Iran's most fortified nuclear enrichment site is a challenge, even for the world's biggest conventional weapons.
The Fordo uranium enrichment facility (satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies) lies an estimated 80 to 90 metres underground, placing it beyond the reach of any known aerial bomb in Israel ...
He notes that Indonesia's geology is highly complex. A spidery web of different types of faults cut through the region, so teasing out exactly what happened is a challenge.
A missile launched by Iran as part of a June 19 attack on Israel has drawn global concern after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it contained a cluster bomb warhead. Unlike traditional ...
U.S. B-2 bomber with 30,000-pound MOP needed to strike Iran's Fordow nuclear site, says retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Weatherington, describing the complex mission.