Pentagon rushes giant bunker-buster bomb project since Iran's Qom site discovered
DEBKAfile Special Report

27 Sept. The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the timeline for producing the first 15-ton super bunker- buster bomb (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before exploding. Top US defense agencies and air force units were also working against the clock to adapt the bay of a B2a Stealth bomber for carrying and delivering the bomb.
The Pentagon has ordered the number of bombs rolling off the production line increased from four to ten - a rush job triggered in May by the discovery that Iran was hiding a second uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom. Congress has since quietly inserted the necessary funding in the 2009 budget.
This urgency indicates the Obama administration may be thinking in terms of a one-time surgical strike against Iran's underground enrichment facility as a warning shot should its defiance continue