What happens if the United States uses a nuclear bunker buster on Iran? Tucker Carlson and former CIA officer John Kiriakou have claimed President Trump is considering a nuclear strike on Pickaxe Mountain, a tunnel complex near Natanz. Those claims are unverified, and Trump has publicly rejected the idea, so this is a hypothetical. But it’s worth thinking through.
In this video I look at what the B61-11 earth penetrator can and can’t do against a facility buried 80 to 100 meters under granite, why the strike doesn’t drill through the mountain, and why even a “successful” strike would leave uncertainty about what survived along with dangerous radioactive fallout. Then I follow the consequences: emergency sessions at the UN, allies suspending defense ties, NATO’s nuclear-sharing arrangements under pressure, a slow drift away from the dollar, a constitutional fight in Washington over sole presidential launch authority, and the risk that one nuclear strike meant to stop one country leads five more to build their own.
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Video Sources: DoD and DoE. Clips from Wargames by United Artists
Source: Wes O'Donnell
