US Spent 15 Years Designing Bombs To Target Iran's Fordow Nuclear Site

The American strike on Iran's Fordow nuclear enrichment facility was the outcome of a covert, 15-year-long military effort to develop specialised weapons capable of reaching the deeply buried site, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Caine.

The revelations, as reported by The New York Post, offer an insight into the Pentagon's long-term planning and technological development in response to the Iranian nuclear threat.  

Caine referred to the operation as "Operation Midnight Hammer," saying it "was the culmination of those 15 years of incredible work, the air crews, the tanker crews, the weapons crews that built the weapons, the load crews that loaded it."

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