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With America's war on terror in full flow, the US forces found out that taking on the terrorists belonging to the al-Qaeda and its affiliates in the caves and mountains of Afghanistan was a herculean task. As the war dragged on, the Bush administration and US military were convinced that conventional methods were failing to annihilate the terror groups. There were hardly any option of targeting the well hidden and entrenched terrorists in the caves and mountains. Bunker buster bombs were a solution but in the early 2000s, the US did not have the GBU-57 which it claims can penetrate up to 60 meters of medium-strength rock. The US did have a nuclear earth penetrator, the B61-11 bomb in its arsenal. But the B61-11 was not capable of penetrating certain types of terrain including medium to hard rocks. It's maximum penetration depth was touted to be 20 feet into the earth. So, the idea of developing another more powerful nuclear bunker buster was born. Named Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, this bomb was believed to be one of the solutions for taking out the hidden leadership of al-Qaeda and other terror groups in Afghanistan. The US Air Force and the National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA started to study about designing and developing the RNEP. Also Read: The five Republicans who defied Trump and blew up his big beautiful bill When asked abut the need for the RNEP, the then US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham during a Senate Committee of Armed Forces hearing had stated, "It was the conclusion of the Nuclear Posture Review that a threat that needed to be addressed in the 21st century in the immediate period ahead of us would be hard, deeply buried targets. A number of approaches to dealing with that were then asked to be researched. This is just one of them. It's a threat that rose to the level of being included in that review." 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Popular Science had in an article dated April 15, 2017, reported that one RNEP detonation beneath the earth would send out "300,000 tons of radioactive debris up to 15 miles into the air'. 'The total number of casualties will vary but could exceed one million, depending on weather, wind velocity and the blast's proximity to towns and cities,' the report added. With Iran's nuclear facilities not yet obliterated and some US lawmakers mulling about supplying Israel with B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and GBU-57 bunker busters, there is a possibility that hawkish American military officers may push for the revival of the RNEP option.
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With Iran's nuclear facilities proving resilient despite conventional bunker buster attacks, the US might consider reviving the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) project. This controversial option, designed to destroy deeply buried targets, faces significant concerns regarding radioactive fallout, potentially causing widespread devastation and casualties across the region, making its deployment highly problematic. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads US could plan a nuclear strike on Iran Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Why Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator did get the green light Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads The regime of Ayatollah Khamenei in Tehran has made it clear that despite US Air Force sending in its B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and dropping multiple GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator bombs on its nuclear facilities, Iran will not stop. Analysis by most of the international intelligence community, including America's Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as satellite images of the facilities located in Fordow and Natanz claim that they are still standing even after being hit by 12 and two bunker busters each respectively. The two sites suffered damages but are likely to be back in a few months after repairs and modifications are carried Fordow and Natanz nuclear sites are located deep beneath the earth with the former being Iran's most secretive and heavily protected facility. Natanz is Iran's primary uranium enrichment site. The two sites seemed to have been damaged by the 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs, but US President Donald Trump 's claims of them being "obliterated" have not been what can the American and Israeli militaries do to stop Iran from going ahead with repairing and bring back Fordow and Natanz nuclear facilities back online in the next few months? Will the US bring the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) out of the design books to put an end to Iran's nuclear ambitions?If the bombing runs by B-2 bombers and GBU-57s have failed to destroy Iran's nuclear ambition, the Trump administration can take a leaf out of former US President George W Bush Jr.'s the 43rd US President, faced a deeply burrowed and highly motivated enemy in the mountains of Afghanistan. With America's war on terror in full flow, the US forces found out that taking on the terrorists belonging to the al-Qaeda and its affiliates in the caves and mountains of Afghanistan was a herculean the war dragged on, the Bush administration and US military were convinced that conventional methods were failing to annihilate the terror groups. There were hardly any option of targeting the well hidden and entrenched terrorists in the caves and buster bombs were a solution but in the early 2000s, the US did not have the GBU-57 which it claims can penetrate up to 60 meters of medium-strength rock. The US did have a nuclear earth penetrator, the B61-11 bomb in its arsenal. But the B61-11 was not capable of penetrating certain types of terrain including medium to hard rocks. It's maximum penetration depth was touted to be 20 feet into the the idea of developing another more powerful nuclear bunker buster was born. Named Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, this bomb was believed to be one of the solutions for taking out the hidden leadership of al-Qaeda and other terror groups in US Air Force and the National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA started to study about designing and developing the asked abut the need for the RNEP, the then US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham during a Senate Committee of Armed Forces hearing had stated, "It was the conclusion of the Nuclear Posture Review that a threat that needed to be addressed in the 21st century in the immediate period ahead of us would be hard, deeply buried targets. A number of approaches to dealing with that were then asked to be researched. This is just one of them. It's a threat that rose to the level of being included in that review."Yet, the RNEP program was never approved and remained on concept behind the RNEP was it would penetrate the hardened rocks and explode, sending out a shock so powerful that the underground network of tunnels and bunkers would be destroyed killing anyone hiding in there was a massive threat. It was about how to control the radioactive fallout. None of the nuclear scientists were convinced that a RNEP detonation could be contained within a limited geography or the bunker buster could penetrate deep enough to do the work it was tasked RNEPs were to be equipped with radar sensors to ensure nuclear detonation after a penetration of certain depth, but no one was sure of it working on RNEP dropped on the mountains of Afghanistan to take out a handful terrorists would have resulted in a humungous radioactive fallout killing millions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and even Science had in an article dated April 15, 2017, reported that one RNEP detonation beneath the earth would send out "300,000 tons of radioactive debris up to 15 miles into the air'. 'The total number of casualties will vary but could exceed one million, depending on weather, wind velocity and the blast's proximity to towns and cities,' the report Iran's nuclear facilities not yet obliterated and some US lawmakers mulling about supplying Israel with B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and GBU-57 bunker busters, there is a possibility that hawkish American military officers may push for the revival of the RNEP option.
