re: #297 reloadingisnotahobby

Bunker Busters and other Tunneling Munitions use depleted Uran… and conventional means (HE)to gain entrance to underground facilities. but most I’ve heard of go nuc…once they reach the
depth they are intended to reach!
I’ve only heard this from a friend who just retired from Mercury Nevada…

Most bunker busters are not nuclear. Israel used some in Lebanon and I believe we used them in Iraq. But I’m not sure they would take out a mountain. Conventional busters do not set off a nuclear explosion at depth; as far as I understand it, they are only HE with delay.

I think we have nuclear bunker busters in theory, although I’m not sure they are current technology or whether we are working to update/upgrade the nuclear variety. I don’t think we would use them in a preemptive strike, hence the question about nonnuclear busters.