Massive Ordinance Penetrator to Undergo Further Testing

By Michael Goldfarb
Published March 12, 2007 4:24pm ET
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Massive Ordinance Penetrator to Undergo Further Testing
Scott Canon has an excellent piece in the Kansas City Star today on the “massive ordinance penetrator”–the Big BLU–a 30,000 pound bomb the Air Force is building to reach hardened, underground facilities of the kind used by North Korea and Iran to shield their nuclear weapons programs. According to Canon, the Air Force will detonate […]

Scott Canon has an excellent piece in the Kansas City Star today on the “massive ordinance penetrator”–the Big BLU–a 30,000 pound bomb the Air Force is building to reach hardened, underground facilities of the kind used by North Korea and Iran to shield their nuclear weapons programs. According to Canon, the Air Force will detonate one of these monsters underground at the White Sands Missile Range sometime this week in an effort to better understand the effects of such a massive blast. Canon spoke to my favorite weapons expert, John Pike of globalsecurity.org:

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