Doug Ross @ Journal

US Tests 15-Ton Bunker Buster

Global Security Newswire is reporting that the U.S. has tested a 15-Ton 'Bunker Buster':

In a tunnel under the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the U.S. military this month conducted the first test detonation of a massive bomb designed to crack hardened bunkers... At the helm of the $30 million project to develop what the Defense Department calls the Massive Ordnance Penetrator is the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a Pentagon branch devoted to countering threats from weapons of mass destruction. The 30,000-pound bomb could be deployed against the type of underground facilities in which Iran is engaged in uranium-enrichment work in defiance of tightening U.N. sanctions...

Perhaps the ratio is one ton to one kidnapped Brit.

The timing for the test is relevant, as Jules Crittenden reports that Britain's treatment of Iran will enter a “different phase” if negotiations fail.