The 30,000 pound munition, equipped by the U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bomber may be the only aerial bomb that can reach Iran's Fordow nuclear site.

While U.S. President Donald Trump is clearly weighing his options to strike Iran or not, a new wrinkle in his calculus may be emerging. Those famed bunker-buster bombs, the GBU-57, might not be the magic bullet some experts and the media are making them out to be.

As President Donald Trump is warming to the idea of using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, officials and experts have suggested the US’ 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bomb is the only weapon capable of destroying the Fordow Fuel Enrichment plant,