Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom.*
The 13.6-tonne behemoth — called the “massive ordnance penetrator,” or MOP — will be the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and carry 2,400 kilograms of explosives.
The bomb is about 10 times more powerful than the weapon it is designed to replace.
Better to have it and not need it...
...than to need it and not have it...
