Iran Reverse Engineers GBU-57 Bunker Buster Bomb that Failed to Explode
Iran retrieved a 30,000-pound GBU-57 bunker-buster bomb after it failed to detonate during the U.S.’s "12-day war" strikes on Ford, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites in 2020. Reverse-engineering its Eglin steel alloy and guidance tech could enable Iran’s Fatah hypersonic missiles, evading Patriot defenses, and potentially develop nuclear-tipped bunker-busters targeting Israel. The U.S.’s shifting claims—from "no nuclear program" to demanding dismantlement—highlight hypocrisy, as Iran asserts its UN-mandated right to peaceful nuclear development while accusing Washington of enabling Israel’s arsenal despite laws prohibiting such transfers. Iran’s anti-stealth radar and Strait of Hormuz defenses deter Western aggression, yet the episode ties U.S. policy to Jeffrey Epstein-linked blackmail, warning of potential regional collapse if these claims hold. [Automatically generated summary]
So I had to fact check this because it was, it sounded so incredible, but it appears to be confirmed that when the United States dropped these so-called bunker buster bombs on Iran last June, those bombs are called GBU-57 or massive ordnance penetrators.
They're the 30,000-pound bunker busters.
Well, it turns out that one of them did not explode.
And as a result, then Iran retrieved the bomb completely intact.
And it is it's presumed it's being claimed that Iran is reverse engineering the bomb and is gaining essentially billions of dollars of bunker busting technology that Iran can put into its own missile systems and warheads in order to attack Israel and to blow up the underground bases where the war criminals hang.
out, like Netanyahu.
So this story, it's being covered widely, but I found it in TurkeyToday.com.
And it says that the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Aragchi, revealed that unexploded bombs remained at the nuclear facilities struck by the United States during the so-called 12-day war.
And that this created safety concerns that must be addressed before international inspections can proceed.
So Iran is looking at this and saying, well, we can't have inspectors in here because this is an unexploded bomb.
But that seems to be just being kind of used as an excuse to delay the inspectors.
The same guy, the foreign minister, Arag Chi, that's a difficult name, said that he has alerted the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA director, General Rafael Grossi, asking whether there's a special law or a protocol for visiting nuclear facilities that have been targeted by military strikes.
He said, quote, I told him that there needs to be a protocol before visits because there are safety and security issues.
There are unexploded bombs and there are matters we need to agree on.
The United States, just to back up, the United States claims it used B-2 stealth bombers to completely destroy Iran's Ford nuclear enrichment facility, which is under a mountain.
And they claimed also Natan's and Isfahan nuclear facilities.
And, you know, Trump claimed at the time, we destroyed everything.
It's completely obliterated.
And Netanyahu can rest easy that Iran has no nuclear program remaining.
But then, of course, now Trump is saying, well, Iran has to agree to dismantle its nuclear program, even though we were told that it was completely destroyed.
So what's up with that story?
Something's very odd there.
But the big news here is that it appears the United States delivered this intact bunker buster bomb.
Now, according to Iran's own media, the Tehran Times, there's a claim there that Iran has already, quote, successfully reverse engineered the giant munition.
And that same report also says that Iran is going to incorporate the guidance technology and the penetration technology, which involves a lot of special alloys, into its own ballistic missile warheads, including the Fatah hypersonic missiles.
Now, that's important to note because those hypersonic missiles cannot be stopped by Patriot interceptors or Patriot missile batteries.
Now, just to be clear, Iran is not going to be able to build a 30,000-pound bunker buster because it doesn't have any aircraft that can carry it or deliver it, but it doesn't need to.
Iran has very advanced ballistic missiles as well as hypersonic missiles, missiles that did a tremendous amount of damage to Israel last year.
And it was only Netanyahu calling Trump and basically begging Trump to intervene and stop Iran that probably saved Israel from near total destruction at the hands of Iran.
So there's no question Iran has very capable missiles.
And also, they already took out some, I forgot what they were, like special intelligence unit building, a building right there in the middle of Tel Aviv that had some underground floors was at least mostly destroyed by Iran during that, leaving two apartment buildings almost unharmed that were adjacent to that.
So Iran has very precise targeting capabilities.
When you add to that the bunker buster technology, then Iran could legitimately start destroying underground bunker facilities, which, of course, that's what Netanyahu and all the other Israeli war criminals, that's what they retreat to anytime there's kinetic exchange.
But here's a question I have.
See, I think Iran has, I think they have nuclear weapons.
In fact, I'm certain of it.
I think they have nuclear warheads.
I don't know that they've attached them to anything.
They're not active probably, but they're smart engineers.
They've figured this out.
And I think that they could put a nuclear warhead now combined with bunker buster technology to deliver a missile that penetrates a bunker and then detonates the nuclear warhead underground in maybe Tel Aviv or one of the military bases around Israel.
And by detonating a nuclear weapon underground, that would, of course, greatly limit the amount of radiation fallout.
So it wouldn't affect Lebanon or Jordan or maybe Egypt or whoever might be nearby.
Rather, the radiation would stay mostly underground.
Not entirely, but mostly.
Also, it would do a tremendous amount of damage, obviously, depending on the size of the nuclear warhead.
But it's not difficult to imagine that Iran could build, let's say, I don't know, a 500-kiloton nuclear warhead, which is larger than Hiroshima, or a one-megaton nuclear warhead.
The technical difficulty of that is well within the reach of Iranian engineers.
So in other words, it looks like the U.S. just gave Iran last summer the technology that Iran needs to nuke the underground bases or bunkers in Israel, which would potentially just turn all the war criminals into atomic dust or something, or glowing dust.
Hey, Mr. Netanyahu, you look glowing today.
Oh, wait.
What just happened?
Now, my only question in this is I'd be skeptical that reverse engineering this technology and then adapting it and actually making it active on your own missiles.
I'm skeptical that that could happen in anything less than a couple of years.
That seems like a pretty big project.
So I don't think that Iran has bunker busters right now.
But they could very well be on the path to, let's say, using some of the bunker buster technology that they found in this bomb.
Now, I did a little research on this, and it looks like the bunker buster bomb, again, the GBU-57, uses a special kind of steel alloy called Eglin steel alloy to allow it to achieve this deep penetration.
And manufacturing that alloy, I don't think, is something that Iran is capable of doing.
But perhaps with the help of the Russians and the Chinese, perhaps they could build an infrastructure to be able to achieve that over time.
But it's not something you can just replicate easily.
And that seems to be a key component of this.
So it's possible that even if Iran completely reverse engineers this bomb, it doesn't mean they can make a carbon copy of it themselves.
Perhaps they could use other materials that are more readily available and have less penetration capability, for example.
But that is still a very big deal.
I mean, this was essentially a technology transfer.
You know, you drop bombs on your enemy, they're supposed to blow up.
And when they don't blow up, you've just given your enemy the bomb.
And they have, you know, apparently they've reverse engineered it.
So there you go.
That took the U.S. military, I believe, well over a decade and billions of dollars of investment and testing.
I mean, giving Iran the bomb is actually better than giving them the blueprints.
They have the physical bomb.
They can, you know, take it apart, examine it.
They can look at the guidance systems.
They can look at, I don't know, depth, the depth management systems or however that works.
I mean, how does the bomb know how deep it is?
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You know, how does it know when to explode?
That's a very complicated question, I suppose.
I mean, first it hits the ground, and then it's supposed to go, you know, deep under the ground.
How does it know how deep it is?
I don't know.
There's clearly some mechanism that didn't work.
So maybe that's more complicated than we ever suspected.
In any case, Iran has received this technology transfer, and Israel is probably going to see some of this in the years ahead.
Meanwhile, Iran continues to insist on its right to engage in peacetime nuclear energy development for its own infrastructure, which is a right that all nations enjoy under the UN Charter, by the way.
It turns out that the United States has no right whatsoever to tell Iran that they can't have a nuclear power program or nuclear enrichment or even nuclear weapons for that matter.
I mean, by what right does the U.S. claim to be able to dictate to the world which countries can have nukes and which countries cannot?
You know, that's how nukes ended up in the hands of Israel, in total violation of U.S. law, by the way, because U.S. law prohibits the U.S. from transferring such weapons of mass destruction to nations that are involved in genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.
So the fact that the U.S. gave these weapons to Israel is a violation of U.S. law.
That's why there's been no official announcement or confirmation that Israel has those nuclear weapons.
But they do.
We all know they do.
And Israel is engaged in more violence against civilians and mass slaughter of women and children than any other country in the world for a long time here.
I mean, you'd have to go back to world wars to find something similar.
So if anybody should not have nuclear weapons, it's Israel.
And when Trump's people go to Iran and say, hey, we need you to agree to dismantle your nuclear power program, to never have nuclear weapons, and to also give up all your missiles.
You know, Iran's obvious response would be a couple of things.
Like, number one, well, of course we can't give up our missiles.
If we do, then you're going to bomb us and destroy us.
And so will Israel.
Our missiles are our only defense against Israel, a nation that commits genocide and war crimes.
And secondly, Iran's response would probably need to be something along the lines of, okay, if you want us to give up our nuclear program, then you have Israel give up all its nuclear weapons first, because Israel has nuclear weapons and Israel is a threat to us.
So of course, of course, the U.S. would never demand that Israel give up its nuclear weapons.
So why should Israel have nukes and the U.S. have nukes, but Iran shouldn't?
You know, by what international law does the U.S. have the right to dictate who gets what kind of weapons, especially if those weapons are developed domestically.
So that's something to consider.
It's just like Trump telling India, oh, you can't buy oil from Russia, or telling China, you can't buy energy from Iran.
It's like, wait a minute, when did that become your beeswax?
You have no right to tell every country in the world who they can buy from, who they can sell to, what technologies they can develop.
You know, since, like, when did God put the U.S. in charge?
Never.
Never.
Even Aragchi says that the negotiations with the U.S. will only succeed, quote, when the rights of the Iranian people are acknowledged and respected.
Well, that's never going to happen from the U.S. point of view.
He says knowledge cannot be eliminated through bombardment.
Technology cannot be destroyed.
Technology exists, knowledge exists, and there is no alternative to negotiation.
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And what he's saying there, in my view, is that Iran knows how to build nukes.
They know how to enrich nuclear fuel because they're not stupid.
And you can't take that knowledge away through assassinations and carpet bombing, the surface or the cities.
It doesn't work.
So the U.S. is in a very tough spot, and so is Israel.
If the U.S. attacks Iran, then, oh, and it looks like the U.S. is trying to pull together some kind of a ground assault force, which sounds like mass suicide.
But if the U.S. attacks Iran, then Iran is going to obliterate Israel and probably attack U.S. military bases in the region, as well as possibly damage or even sink U.S. naval vessels.
And anybody trying to physically attack Iran with ground troops, I mean, good luck.
Good luck with all the mountains.
Good luck with all the deserts.
I mean, You would need millions of soldiers to go in any kind of a ground assault to try to capture Tehran.
And I'm looking at a map here.
Iran borders so many different countries.
Iraq and Turkey to the west.
The little piece of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Let's see, the Caspian Sea touches it on the north.
And then also in the north, Turkmenistan.
To the east, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
And then, of course, Iran's southern coast goes along the Persian Gulf and then the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman.
So no wonder Iran is just such critical real estate for the world.
I mean, routes, resources, sea lanes, energy routes, especially.
Iran's critical and it's large.
And so if Trump or if Hegseth and the DOD, if they think they're going to march in there with a bunch of soldiers, like 50,000 soldiers, you better bring 50,000 bodybags is all I'm saying, because I don't think anybody's getting out of there.
They're going to get just destroyed.
If you invade Iran on foot, you're going to get destroyed.
And plus, on top of that, if you invade Iran, I mean, it's totally illegal.
There's no justification for invading Iran, especially for U.S. troops, because Iran poses no real threat to America.
This is just Trump doing the bidding of Israel, obviously.
But if the U.S. invades Iran, China and Russia are not going to sit back and just do nothing.
They're going to get active and they're probably going to start attacking U.S. naval vessels and U.S. military bases with everything from Russia's Oreshnik systems to China's aircraft carrier destroying missiles.
And we could see a big portion of the U.S. Navy sitting at the bottom of the Arabian Sea, along with tens of thousands of sailors or something.
So that's what the DOD is begging for if they try to attack Iran.
Plus, energy prices would skyrocket all over the world because of the Strait of Hormuz, which has been mined with mines that can be released from the ocean floor, by the way.
The mines are already there.
And they're intelligent mines.
This isn't the old World War II floating mines.
These are intelligent mines.
They can be released to hit certain ships.
So, you know, they can selectively block the Strait of Hormuz to Western ships, but they can allow friendly allies, that is allies of Iran, to be able to move through the strait.
You see what I mean?
So plus, Iran has a massive battery of land-based missiles that can attack U.S. naval vessels with quite some distance, like maybe up to a couple thousand kilometers.
I'm not an expert on the missile ranges, so that might not be right.
But clearly, the U.S. Navy is trying to keep its distance.
They don't want to get too close to the coastline of Iran.
So, you know, what are you going to do?
Probably the only option the U.S. has is to keep its submarines and ships far away, you know, hang out as far away as possible, and then just launch a bunch of Tomahawk missiles and strike a bunch of targets and claim victory and then go home.
And Trump will say, we won, you know, and it won't matter at all.
It won't actually stop Iran's nuclear program or anything.
But it will piss them off.
And they might launch against Israel.
You know if, if Trump is crazy enough to order that, then probably Israel is gonna end up being largely destroyed and I guess Netanyahu and his fellow war criminals will have to live underground for a while, which is fine.
I mean, they've got, you know, they've got their traffic children down there and everything to keep them occupied, because that's what they do, just play out a bunch of Jeffrey Epstein scenarios down there, wait for the bombing to stop and then they can, you know, resume their, their evil activities on the surface so they could survive it.
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The leaders can, but the country, you know the infrastructure?
I don't think so, you know.
For one thing there's, there's only a few water desalination plants that provide water to the whole country and those are well known.
They're not mobile obviously, they're stationary targets.
Iran can take them all out and there's nothing the U.S. Can do to stop it and there's nothing Israel can do to stop it.
So any attempt to attack Iran or to invade Iran or to bomb Iran is very likely going to result in a catastrophic level of damage on Israel and probably U.S. Bases in the U.S. Navy.
That's where this is going.
So let's hope that there's peace.
Let's hope that cooler heads prevail.
But, you know, again, the big problem here is that the entire Trump administration is, I mean, let me say this carefully.
The people who run our country are pedophiles and Satanists.
And most of them have been compromised by Jeffrey Epstein, who's run by Mossad.
So Israel is actually controlling the U.S. military and the U.S. presidency at this point.
So Netanyahu's calling the shots.
If Netanyahu wants the U.S. to start bombing Iran, well, that's exactly what's going to happen sooner or later.
In fact, Netanyahu just gave a speech where he promised that if the U.S. didn't bomb Iran, or if the world didn't come to the aid of Israel, then the world was going to pay a price.
Yeah, I wonder what that could be.
Do they have more files to release?
Do they have more markets to crash?
What do they have?
Do they have videos?
Yeah, of course they do.
They've got all kinds of videos.
They're going to start rolling them out, maybe.
You know, one day, one guy.
Like, oh, my God.
And then, you know, nations start collapsing.
The UK, Australia, the U.S. government, you name it.
Just collapse, collapse, collapse.
Netanyahu's got all the cards because he's got all the blackmail.
Because again, Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent.
So all the videos that he got, all the blackmail of all the world leaders raping little kids, that's all in the hands of Netanyahu.
And you can bet he's leveraging that blackmail to the max right now.
But that doesn't make Iran conquerable.
I mean, you can have all the blackmail in the world.
It doesn't mean that Iran can be destroyed because you just don't have the means to do it.
And if you try to do it, you're going to be destroyed.
That's kind of where we are in history right now.
You know, the pedophiles are trying to destroy Persia.
Seriously, you know, the Satanists are trying to destroy Iran.
And that's why Iran calls the West, you know, the great Satan, because the West is run by Satanists.
You know, they're not wrong about that.
That's actually a very accurate description.
What else would you call people that rape and traffic children all day long, you know, and use it as blackmail material?
Satanists and pedophiles.
So Iran knows this.
Russia knows this.
China knows this.
And now most Americans are figuring this out too.
So we should all stand for peace, no war.
Tell Israel to go pound sand, stop sending weapons and money to Israel, cut them off completely.
If they want to go fight Iran, send your own people.
They won't last a week.
You know?
And stop asking U.S. soldiers to bleed for Israel all over the deserts of Iran if they even make it that far, which is highly doubtful.
So I call for peace and I call for sanity.
But then again, I'm not in charge, so we're probably not going to get that.
But we'll see what happens with Iran's reverse engineering of the bunker buster weapons and their advancements in missile technology and also their advancements in anti-stealth radar technology because of China's systems that they delivered to Iran, you know, traded that for oil.
And I covered that last week.
That's also a massive factor in all of this because if the U.S. tries to send stealth bombers over Iran now, those stealth bombers could easily be shot down because they're no longer stealth.
The stealth factor is done.
China's radar can detect them up to 500 kilometers away because of the advanced radar, you know, UHF and VHF radar systems.
So Trump's in a tight spot here, huh?
Very tight spot.
And, you know, I don't know if there's something like, you know, pedophile power that he can invoke or something with the military.
You know, go, go, pedos or something, like a magic pedo ring that they can turn on, activate like wonder powers, pedo powers, you know, pedo pan, peanut butter, whatever.
I don't know if there's some magical satanic pedo power thing, but I doubt it.
And so I don't think they can defeat Iran as much as they hope to.
In fact, I think the pedo's are going to be defeated because they're being exposed.
I think much of the Western world is about to collapse.
The currency is about to collapse.
The governments are about to collapse and much more.
So we'll talk about that in another broadcast.
Thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams.
You can catch all of my articles at naturalnews.com and you can catch my videos at brighteon.com.
And pray for peace.
Thank you for listening.
Take care.
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