A 5.1-magnitude earthquake has struck Iran, with its epicenter located near the country’s Fordow nuclear enrichment facility, according to the US Geological Survey 22:24, 20 Jun 2025Updated 22:25, 20 Jun 2025 (Image: USGS) Iran was struck by a 5.1-magnitude earthquake dangerously near the country’s Fordow nuclear enrichment facility in Qom Province, reports from the U.S. … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was wrong in suggesting there is no evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon. Trump contested intelligence assessments relayed earlier this year by his spy chief that Tehran was not working on a nuclear … Read more
United States president Donald Trump has not yet ruled out whether to use American nuclear weapons to attack the underground Fordow enrichment site in Iran Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov(Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Russia has sent a stark warning to the USA as it considers whether to use tactical nuclear weapons in Iran. The Kremlin … Read more
If President Donald Trump does decide to use the United States’ largest conventional bomb to destroy Iran’s fortresslike Fordo nuclear enrichment facility, the colossal force of the explosion would likely cause casualties among workers or anyone else still at the site. But it would not trigger a nuclear explosion or a widespread radiological or chemical … Read more
Cranes surround one of the two reactors being constructed at Hinkley Point C on September 27, 2024 in Bridgwater, England. Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.S. asset management giant Apollo is set to provide a £4.5 billion ($6 billion) loan to plug a shortfall facing U.K. nuclear project Hinkley Point. The deal was first reported … Read more
The heavily guarded mysterious Fordow bunker is built into the side of a mountain near the city of Qom, around 60 miles of Tehran. It was first made public in 2009, according to officials The heavily guarded, mysterious Fordow bunker The world is nervously awaiting Donald Trump’s decision whether to strike Iran’s secretive nuclear bunker … Read more
This time, Israel’s fears over Iran’s intention to build a nuclear bomb really may be valid. Or not. And for better or worse, it will be U.S. President Donald Trump making the decision about what facts to accept or to reject. For most of his nearly 20 years leading Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been stoking … Read more
The U.S. assessment of Iran’s nuclear program has not changed since March when the director of national intelligence told lawmakers that Tehran has large amounts of enriched uranium but has not made a decision to rush towards building an atomic bomb, according to the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee and a source with … Read more
If the U.S. decides to support Israel more directly in its attack on Iran, one option would be to provide the “bunker buster” bombs believed necessary to significantly damage the Fordo nuclear fuel enrichment plant in central Iran, built deep into a mountain. Such a bomb would have to be dropped from an American aircraft. Israeli officials have … Read more
A KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft refuels a B-2 Spirit aircraft with the 509th Bomb Wing over Kansas Aug. 29, 2012. U.S. Air Force photo DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran is staring down the possibility of seeing its most important nuclear facilities hit by a 30,000-pound American bomb. White House officials on Tuesday told NBC News … Read more