Inside the Iran attack: Details revealed of Operation Midnight Hammer
Story by Cybele Mayes-Osterman and Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY • 21m
President Trump addresses the nation after US attacks three nuclear sites in Iran
WASHINGTON – The June 21 attack on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities was weeks in planning, started with a decoy flight of B-2 stealth bombers over the Pacific Ocean and culminated with the first use of the Pentagon’s most powerful conventional bombs.
The attack, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, involved more than 125 warplanes, submarines and surface warships, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters the morning after the attack. It has also has put 40,000 U.S. troops in the region on high alert for potential retaliation from Iran.
“This was a highly classified mission with very few people in Washington knowing the timing or nature of this plan,” Caine said.
Caine described a timeline for the attack that began around 12 a.m. June 21.
It began with B-2 bombers taking off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Several of the stealth warplanes, the only ones capable of carrying the Pentagon’s most powerful bunker buster, headed west over the Pacific.
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