US President Donald Trump has asked his military advisers if 30,000-pound bombs could destroy Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, Axios reports.
The bunker-buster bombs, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrators, are in the US arsenal, but Israel does not have the weapons or the bombers needed to deploy the bombs.
Fordo is buried underground at a depth that is believed to be out of reach of Israeli aerial weaponry.
Officials from the Pentagon told Trump they believe the bombs could work against Fordo, although it’s not yet clear if Trump is so sure, Axios reports.
The bombs have never been used in actual combat, only in tests.
The Israelis told the US officials that, even though they could not dismantle Fordo with bombs, they may “do it with humans,” the report says, citing a US official.
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