The risks of bombing Iran’s nuclear mountain

One of Iran’s key nuclear enrichment factories is buried deep under a mountain. The Fordow plant, 20 miles from the central city of Qom, is considered so naturally protected that there is just one weapon in the world able to blow it up. The US’s 30,000lb GBU-57F/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, or “Mop”, can penetrate around 60 metres undergroun...