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Iran Building Nuclear Facility So Deep Underground that U.S. Airstrikes Couldn't Reach It
(AP-Washington Post) Jon Gambrell - Iran has been digging tunnels in the mountain near the Natanz nuclear site to build a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of U.S. bunker buster bombs designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery analyzed by the Associated Press. Completion of such a facility "would be a nightmare scenario," warned Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation policy at the Washington-based Arms Control Association. Experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies said Iran is likely building a facility at a depth of between 80 and 100 meters. The Institute for Science and International Security suggested last year the tunnels could go even deeper. The U.S. created the GBU-57 bomb, which can plow through at least 60 meters of earth before detonating.