Officials unveiled details about a 15-year top-secret program.
Secrets on Iran nuclear strike spill into open as Pentagon defends bombing
By Anne Flaherty and Luis MartinezJune 26, 2025, 4:22 PM
The Pentagon on Thursday released an extraordinary number of details about the military's top-secret bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities and its defense of an air base in Qatar.
The unusual disclosures – including analysts briefed at secret locations, bombs dropped into ventilation shafts, and a small group of young service members left behind at a base to shoot down Iranian missiles – is being orchestrated by a White House angry over questions about the effectiveness of the U.S. strike, which targeted three Iranian nuclear targets on June 21.
Trump insists Iran's nuclear program has been "obliterated," while an early military intelligence assessment said the strike might only have set back Iran's program by "months." Military officials say they need much more time to assess the damage.
Here's what we've learned:
There was a 15-year, top-secret mission to figure out how to destroy Iran's Fordo nuclear facility
In 2009, a U.S. officer working for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency was brought into a vault at an undisclosed location and shown highly classified photos of a construction site in the Iranian mountains, according to Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ...
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