[XenaLee]

Forgive my naivete, but how can we take out their nuke facilities if their facilities are underground and ergo, protected? Looks like the best we could do is poison the area around them for oh...say...100 years. Do we have anything other than nukes that could really destroy their underground nuke facilities?

[Pistolshot]

Look up Massive Ordanance Penatrator.

Where I work we call it Dial-a-Floor.

30,000 pounds and built to penetrate. This is just the publicity picture. The explosive has been tested and the penetrator itself verified.

[jrooney]

Yes we do. Lt. General McTierney (I think that is how you spell his name) said a few days ago we have a 30,000 lb mega bomb that can penetrate anything in Iran and their facilities can be breached by it.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

Forgive my naivete, but how can we take out their nuke facilities if their facilities are underground and ergo, protected? Looks like the best we could do is poison the area around them for oh...say...100 years. Do we have anything other than nukes that could really destroy their underground nuke facilities?

The plan I have heard most often--Israel is said to be seriously considering it, if the US does not act first--is a two-step approach: 500- or 1,000-pound bunker-buster bombs, quickly followed by tactical nuclear weapons at the (already damaged) site.

I am certainly no expert on this subject; but it sounds like a workable plan to me.