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Evening Standard
Bill Bowkett and Georgia Bell

Explained: The bunker-busting 'super bomb' Trump unleashed on Iran

Donald Trump has unleashed a “very successful” attack on Iran using 30,000lb bunker-buster bombs after calling for the “unconditional surrender” of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

As part of the offensive, the US used 12 bunker buster bombs to target three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. Two other nuclear sites in Iran were reportedly 'wiped out' by 30 Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. submarines 400 miles away.

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