Bunker buster bombs can penetrate 200 feet of earth or 18 meters of concrete, but Fordo’s main halls lie 80 to 90 meters nearly 300 feet beneath solid rock. This technical reality, underscored recently in satellite imagery and intelligence assessments,

Bombed by the US in a dramatic escalation, this mountainside enrichment plant south of Tehran is vital to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and central to Israel’s efforts to dismantle them.