As Israel confronts the prospect of a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Iran, one question hangs over every war room, every intelligence briefing, and every allied consultation: What if we have to strike Fordow? The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, buried deep beneath the mountains near Qom, is the most fortified nuclear facility Iran possesses, and it is precisely the kind of target for which the United States developed one of the most powerful conventional weapons in military history: the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP.
Could Israel have developed an earth penetrating nuclear weapon?