US used decoys and bunker-busters to attack Iran nuclear sites causing ‘damage and destruction,’ Pentagon says
By MATTHEW ADAMS
STARS AND STRIPES • June 22, 2025
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military employed more than 125 aircraft — some used as decoys — and more than a dozen bunker-buster bombs to attack three nuclear sites in Iran causing “extremely severe damage and destruction,” the Pentagon said Sunday.
“It was powerful, and it was clear. We devastated the Iranian nuclear program,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during his first briefing with news reporters at the Pentagon.
The U.S. attacked the Iran nuclear facilities at Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz in a mission dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer. The operation took weeks of positioning and preparing. The actual attack began overnight Friday and went into Saturday, said Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “This was a highly classified mission with very few people in Washington knowing the timing or nature of this plan,” he said.
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