U.S. Strikes Iranian Nuke Facilities

Quoting the BBC... Donald Trump says the US has completed strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan. "We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space," he wrote on Truth Social.

Trump added that a "full payload of bombs" were dropped on Fordo and all planes were on their way back to the US.

This isn't a surprise; as strong as the Israeli Defense Forces are they simply didn't have the capacity to hit the big 3 nuclear weapons sites inside of Iran (especially the underground facility at Fordow, though Israel has struck areas near Natanz and Isfahan in recent days) and the only ones who could were the USAF's B-2 stealth bombers with their 15-ton bunker-busters.

Now the questions becomes several: (1) what follow-up strikes will the U.S. carry out? (2) related to 1, will it involve a second round of B-2 strikes or could we see the Air Force's fast strategic bombers, the sleek-as-hell B-1 Lancers, go in with their strike packages? (3) What will Iran's response be against us - will they move to close off the Strait of Hormuz, convince outside agitators to act agst. the West, etc.?

Right now it is anyone's guess.

BREAKING: Iran Missile STRIKES Israeli Hospital; IDF Hits Iran Nuclear, ...

We're now one week into the conflict between Israel and Iran and Israel pretty much has what in the West is known as "Air Dominance" meaning the IDF Air Force can operate at-will anywhere over western and central Iran (I didn't include Eastern Iran principally because Iran has enough problems already btwn. them and Pakistan concerning Balochistan terrorists Pakistan has long-accused Iran of supporting).

Meanwhile all eyes continue to watch Whiteman AFB in western Missouri for flights of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers; these are the only ones with the ordnance capable of striking Iran's Fordow underground nuclear facility, weapons the Israelis do not have at present. Reports are the bombers are on what back in the Cold War would've been akin to a cocked pistol situation, needing only a Go order from Washington to be on their way. It is a 30-hour round trip to and from Fordow from Whiteman and would require multiple refuelings' - hence last week's deployment of refueling aircraft to Europe and the Mediterranean. 

Israel Strikes Multiple Targets Inside Iran...

And if reports are to be believed it was a combination strike agst. Iran's nuclear weapons facilities and targeted assassinations of several Iranian leaders...

Israel wasn't playing when they said over and over they would strike and by appearances they have; the question now (well, two of them) is (1) what Iran's response will be and (2) will anyone else get dragged into it?

Founders' Quotes, 3-4 April 2025

Two quotes on the subject of national defense....

(1) Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace. - Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe, 1823

(2) It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace. - Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

They're both right; Jefferson because the easiest way to keep peace between nations is to deter aggression and the easiest way to do that is prepare at every opportunity. Story is right because it is criminally or almost criminally easy to "War war," as Winston Churchill once said, but its very hard, in Churchill's words, "to Jaw Jaw."