On 22 June 2025 the U.S. hit Fordow and Natanz with 14 GBU-57 bunker-busters dropped from seven B-2s, and Isfahan with more than two dozen Tomahawks. Trump said the sites were “completely and totally obliterated.” [1]
A leaked preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency assessment, rated low confidence, suggested the program was set back by months. The CIA director said it was severely damaged. The DIA chief was removed that August. The Iran guide on this site covers the fight over the assessments in detail.
In May 2026, after a second round of strikes in the 2026 war, Reuters reported, citing unnamed officials, that U.S. intelligence saw limited new damage to the nuclear program and still put Iran’s timeline to a weapon at about nine months to a year if it chose to build one, roughly where the June 2025 strikes had left it. The 2026 campaign had focused mostly on conventional military targets. [2]
The 2026 war has cost American lives: the Congressional Research Service counted 18 U.S. service members killed and 824 wounded as of September 2026, and CBO estimated $38 billion in costs. A U.S. Tomahawk reportedly killed more than 150 people, most of them children, at a school in Minab on the first day; a preliminary military inquiry reportedly found the U.S. responsible. [3]
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