B-2s being fitted for Bunker Buster Bomb

A little noticed July 19, 2007 press release from aerospace and defense conglomerate Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) reveals that the company is undertaking the task of refitting a number of the US Air Force's B-2 Stealth Bombers with new bomb racks able to hold and deliver the Boeing produced 30,000 pound (13,600 kg) Massive

The weapon is substantially larger than the previously deepest penetrating bunker buster, the 5000 lb (2,270 kg) GBU-28. It joins a select arsenal of massive non-nuclear bombs along side the famous "Daisycutter", the 15,000 pound BLU-82 bomb designed originally to create clearings in the Vietnam jungle to enable helicopters to put down, and which had a lethality radius of 300 metres, and the so called Mother Of All Bombs, the 30 ft (9.17 m) long, 21,000 pound (9.5 metric tonnes) GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), the hitherto most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed.

There has of course been much chatter lately that any air strikes intended to knock out, or set back the Iranian nuclear program, located at hardened underground facilities such as Natanz, would require the use of either small tactical nuclear devices, or conventional explosive bombs of a size and design hitherto never before used, like the MOP. Somet WMDs Mohamed El Baradei!