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Why even US' bunker-buster bombs can't destroy Iran's Pickaxe Mountain?
short by Bhawana Chaudhary / on Wednesday, 15 July, 2026
Tunnel complexes at Pickaxe Mountain, Iran's secret nuclear facility which US President Donald Trump has threatened to attack, are beyond the reach of US arsenal's most powerful bunker-buster bombs. Some of its underground chambers lie between 260 and 330 feet below the surface, deeper than Iran's Fordow enrichment facility. These bombs can penetrate about 200 feet of earth and rock.
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