The US military used a number of deadly stealth bombers, which only they have in their arsenal, to unleash a devastating attack on three Iranian nuclear sites.
On Saturday morning six of the B-2 stealth bombers docked at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri were on the move to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.
The warplane is the only bomber capable of carrying a 30,000-pound bomb that was used in Saturday nights attack on three separate nuclear facilities in Iran.
President Donald Trump announced the US carried out a ‘very successful attack’ on the sites in a post on Truth Social.
‘We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan‘, Trump said .
‘All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home.’
The bomb, known as the GBU-57 or the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, is something only the US military possesses.
A US official who spoke with The New York Times said that multiple GBU-57’s were used in the attack on the plant, and that the facility had been ‘taken off the table’.
Sean Hannity of Fox News revealed he had spoken with Donald Trump after the attack, with the president saying 6 bombs in total were used on Fordo.
Two other sites were wiped out with 30 tomahawk missiles launched from submarines 400 miles away.
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A B-2 Stealth Bomber flies over the Washington Monument at the National Mall, during the Independence Day celebrations in Washington DC, on July 4, 2020
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The warplane is the only bomber capable of carrying a 30,000-pound bomb that was used in Saturday nights attack on three separate nuclear facilities in Iran
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In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force on May 2, 2023, airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri.
On Saturday morning six of the B-2 stealth bombers docked at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri were on the move to Andersen Air Force Base
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Pictured: The aftermath of an Israeli strike on an oil refinery in Tehran, Iran’s capital city
America’s involvement in the Middle Eastern conflict comes as Israel and Iran have been launching tit-for-tat airstrikes against one another for the last week.
The war between the two countries began when Israel launched what it called Operation Rising Lion on Friday, June 13.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation against Iran would last ‘as many days as it takes’, the goal was to wipe out the Fordo facility.
So far, Israel’s strikes have killed 657 people in Iran, while Iran has killed 24 people in Israel.
For days, Trump was coy about whether the US will in fact enter the war and fly a mission to Fordo.
On Wednesday, he told reporters who were asking him about it: ‘You don’t seriously think I’m going to answer that question. Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component?’
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Pictured: A satellite view of the Fordo nuclear facility, which is in the northwest of Iran
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This US Air Force handout photo shows weapon specialists looking on as a mock up of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator sits in a bomb bay of the B-2 weapons load trainer https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/html_modules/2025/06_JUN/250616_Bunker_Buster_bomb_Graphicv2US/index.html
‘I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do. I can tell you this, that Iran’s got a lot of trouble. And they want to negotiate. And I say why didn’t you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction,’ he said.
Trump recently publicly disagreed with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who testified in March that there is ‘no evidence’ Iran is building a nuclear weapon.
‘She’s wrong,’ Trump said Friday in New Jersey just off to the side of Air Force One. ‘My intelligence community is wrong.’
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Gabbard has since reversed course and clarified that Iran could produce nukes ‘within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly.’
‘President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree,’ she added.
Back in March 2023, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that some uranium at the Fordo site had been enriched to 83.7 percent purity – dangerously close to the 90 percent level necessary for nuclear bombs.
Fordo is smaller than the Natanz site, which has already been targeted by Israeli strikes.
As well as being some 260 feet under rock and soil, the site is reportedly protected by Iranian and Russian surface-to-air missile systems.
Those air defenses, however, are believed to have been weakened by recent Israeli attacks.
Additionally, any US strike carries significant political and diplomatic risks for Trump, who has long warned against entangling the US in overseas conflicts.
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