Posted on 09/30/2009 4:20:25 AM PDT by SpaceBar
The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bomb (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before exploding. DEBKAfile's military sources report that top defense agencies and air force units were also working against the clock to adapt the bay of a B2a Stealth bomber for carrying and delivering the bomb.
The Pentagon has ordered the number of bombs rolling off the production line increased from four to ten - a rush job triggered in May by the discovery that Iran was hiding a second uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom - a discovery which prompted this week's international outcry.
Congress has since quietly inserted the necessary funding in the 2009 budget.
All this urgency indicates that the Obama administration has been preparing military muscle to back up the international condemnation of Iran's concealed nuclear bomb program, its sanctions threat and his willingness to join the negotiations with Iran opening on Oct. 1 in Geneva. Tehran may have to take into account a possible one-time surgical strike against its underground enrichment facility as a warning shot should its defiance continue. In particular, the world powers this week demanded that Iran open up all its nuclear facilities and programs to full and immediate international inspection. Failure to do so could bring forth further US military action.
According to our military sources...
(Excerpt) Read more at debka.com ...
Yep,
Drop it on that damned black rock when the Haj is in full force and a few million vermin are strolling around it.
I have a hard time imagining Hussein initiating a military action against muslims, given his obvious sympathies towards them. Iraq and Afghanistan are one thing, since these were operations started under Bush and simply carried on. But starting a new action against muslims on his watch just doesn’t seem credible.
They could test it on the studios at MSNBC. See if it will penetrate Olberman’s bunker...
Exactly...get them before they get us.
Does the idea of "rushing" any process involving explosives make the hairs on the back of anyone else's neck stand up?
Time to sell Israel a B-2 in a bomber-for-clunker deal.
I have to agree - he doesn’t have the gumption to make this happen. He appears to be one of those who watch things happen and then reacts. The only somewhat bright side to this is that hopefully Israel is getting this technology on the sly.
I think they will almost have to act preemptively because if they don’t - they are finished. Iran is not goofing around.
It’s really sad when an idiot like IamAnutJob has more credibility then the President of the US
Yes!
I believe this!!
since we only found out about this new site last week, Obambi must have gone back in time to May and ordered faster production!
Yeah.
That’s the ticket.
(doesn’t the stupid media know SOME of us can add?)
Now all we need is a real President with the b@lls to use them.
If it get to the point where we have to use it, the IRANIANS WILL BE TIPPED OFF, COUNT ON IT.
There is a LOT more information out there not for public consumption that we won't know about.
Israel has the Abomb and will usr it first...you can bet on it!
I hope Barry doesn’t find out about this information. He’ll put a stop to it.
That’ll leave a mark!
Better check with the lib’s in the Senate.....we wouldn’t want to develop something that might work!
Whatever happened to the MOAB bomb or is this the same thing?
My belief issues started when I read the source was DEBKA.
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