Three months later: where are Iran’s fabled nukes?

Iran had 408 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, enough for nine or 10 atomic bombs if the regime chose to go that route, and that is probably hidden safely away.

After the June U.S. bombing on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, President Donald Trump claimed the key facilities ‘have been completely and totally obliterated.’ Photograph courtesy of Flickr/The White House

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 2, 2025

LONDON, U.K.— Three months have passed since “Operation Midnight Hammer” saw seven American B2 bombers drop 14 “bunker-buster” 14,000-kilogram Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. But where is the highly enriched uranium that...

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