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Iran’s Missing Uranium Stockpile Is a Big Problem for Trump Saturday night’s airstrikes on Iran, though tactically very impressive, seem to have fallen short strategically—way short of what President Donald Trump and his top aides claimed shortly afterward. The big questions that many raised at the time were How effective was the attack (did it destroy Iran’s nuclear program)? and How will the Iranians respond (will they fold or retaliate)? The answers, which upon scrutiny appeared uncertain even then, now seem—less than 48 hours later—more discouraging still. Much of Iran’s enriched uranium might not have been struck by the massive bunker-busting bombs after all. And early Monday afternoon, Iran fired several missiles at the U.S. air base in Qatar, America’s largest military facility in the Middle East. If Trump makes good on his warning, he is likely to launch another strike on Iran, thus deepening U.S. involvement in the war. Most of the B-2 bombers’ supersized bunker busters fired in Trump’s attack Saturday night—12 of the 14 dropped by the seven planes—were aimed at the Fordo uranium enrichment facility, which is buried at least 300 feet inside a mountain. Satellite data indicates that the bombs hit their target, some of them smashing through the site’s ventilation shafts. But there is doubt whether even a dozen of the bombs penetrated all the way down to destroy
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