Trump compares Iran strikes to Hiroshima, claims success in ending nuclear threat [View all]
Source: KDBC-TV El Paso, TX
Wed, June 25th 2025 at 5:06 AM
Updated Wed, June 25th 2025 at 5:08 AM
WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump compared on Wednesday his strikes on Iran's nuclear sites to the U.S. bombing Hiroshima, saying both successfully ended wars.
“I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima. I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing that ended that war,” Trump said at the NATO summit in the Netherlands. “This ended that with the war. If we didn’t take that out, they would have been they’d be fighting right now." His comments followed his claim that the strikes had completely destroyed the facilities.
"We hear it was obliteration. It was a virtual obliteration. When you take a look at the ground above, don't forget the flame is all underground, but everything above, if you look at the before and the after picture, everything above is burned black, the trees, everything," Trump said during remarks alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. "There's one building, but that's a building that sunk substantially into the granite. So that you know the fire goes right over it. It was, I believe it was total obliteration."
Operation Midnight Hammer involved seven B-2 Spirit bombers carrying massive 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs known as Massive Ordnance Penetrators. They targeted Iran's deeply buried enrichment site at Fordo, an underground centrifuge facility at Iran's main enrichment site in Natanz, and a third nuclear site at Isfahan. However, sources told CNN the bombings likely only set the country's nuclear program back by a matter of months.
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As President Obama noted 10 years ago when these bombs were first tested -
By W.J. Hennigan
July 3, 2015 3:31 PM PT
Reporting from WASHINGTON — As diplomats rush to reach an agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. military is stockpiling conventional bombs so powerful that strategists say they could cripple Tehran’s most heavily fortified nuclear complexes, including one deep underground.
The bunker-busting bombs are America’s most destructive munitions short of atomic weapons. At 15 tons, each is 5 tons heavier than any other bomb in the U.S. arsenal. In development for more than a decade, the latest iteration of the MOP — massive ordnance penetrator — was successfully tested on a deeply buried target this year at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The test followed upgrades to the bomb’s guidance system and electronics to stop jammers from sending it off course.
U.S. officials say the huge bombs, which have never been used in combat, are a crucial element in the White House deterrent strategy and contingency planning should diplomacy go awry and Iran seek to develop a nuclear bomb.
Obama has made it clear that he has no desire to order an attack, warning that U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s air defense network and nuclear facilities would spark a destabilizing new war in the Middle East, and would only delay Iran by several years should it choose to build a bomb. “A military solution will not fix it,” Obama told Israeli TV on June 1. An attack “would temporarily slow down an Iranian nuclear program, but it will not eliminate it.”
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