Actually, no. Fordow is under 70 meters of granite mountains and then multiple layers of reinforced concrete. If you understood anything about the issue, you wouldn't have posted a photo of a crater in sand for comparison. That's ridiculous. Fordow is safe from multiple bunker busters and even tactical nukes. Unless it is hit with more than 3 to 5 bunker busters very accurately and precisely which is a very difficult scenario considering how fortified the place is.
And a megatonne (1,000 kTNT) nuke is not called a tactical nuke. It's a strategic weapon. And usually that kind of yield is achieved by thermonuclear weapons, not just fusion-boosted fission bombs. A one megatonne nuclear bomb would be a declaration of war with strong implications and then you will be targeted back. And I have said this before, any kind of nuclear warfare between Iran and Israel will lead to millions of deaths in Iran, but complete annihilation of the Jewish state due to its lack of strategic depth and size.
Stuxnet had little to no effect on Iran's nuclear program. Only 3% to 5% of Iranian centrifuges were destroyed, all of them were IR-1 centrifuges and all of them were replaced immediately from storage. Whatever else they told you is fantasy. In fact, the BBC created a documentary about Stuxnet where a person imitating to be a US security agent appeared and said that the NSA and the CIA wanted to use Stuxnet as a surveillance backdoor (as they were doing it for years successfully) to monitor Iran's activities, but the stupidity of the Israelis and the Israeli eagerness to puff up at any cost made them go for destroying the centrifuges which very soon led to the detection of the attack and cost them a valuable asset that was the result of a multi-national cooperation with the Germans, IAEA inspectors and Russian spies.
You know, last night I was having a look at the "stolen documents" about the AMAD project. I was literally rolling on the floor about how you had been trolled for years. For 15 years, they had made you believe that Marivan site was in a city in Kurdistan near the Iraq border. The United States requested the IAEA to visit the city several times. Finally, they visited there and found nothing. It took 15 years for the US and Israeli intelligence services to realize that the actual location of the Marivan site was not Marivan, but Abadeh, a city in central Iran. And how? By a couple of documents that can very well be forged to misguide you again. If you can't locate a building correctly for 15 years, I doubt you actually know anything of value. The majority of information you are fed could very well be carefully manipulated by the Ministry of Intelligence to divert your attention from other important places and developments.
Let me tell you something. There's nothing enough tactical nukes won't penetrate. A single B-2 bomber can carry dozens of them, and deliver them very accurately.
And again, it's enough to merely shake the centrifuges to destroy them totally. I assure you that a nuke will do more than just shake it.
Another possibility would be to drop chemical/biological bombs inside the site's ventilation shafts.
If tacticals nuke are used, strategic ones might as well be used. Our strategists and scientists know what needs to be done better than I do. If tactical nukes aren't enough, strategic ones will be used.
Any attack on Iran would be declaration of war with Iran, nuclear or not. If you claim Iran can destroy Israel, then that's what it's going to try to do regardless if Israel nukes them or not.
I doubt Israel will nuke Iranian cities, unless Iran does something to really anger Israel. Israel will likely stick to destroying Iranian military bases and nuclear sites.
If Israel nukes Iran to the point millions of people in Iran die, it's over for Iran. Lebanon almost collapsed from the much smaller Beirut explosion.
Japan, a pride and honor filled nation, with military rivalling the world's superpowers, which would send pilots to kamikaze into American ships and had its citizens commit mass suicide instead of getting captured by American forces, was brought to its knees by 2 laughful yield nukes relative to todays nuclear weapons.
You really think Iran will last a second after nukes kill millions of Iranians? Same poor nation with riots and citizens betraying their government for a few dollars from the Mossad?
Iran cannot destroy Israel with ballistic missiles. First of all, most of Iran's ballistic missiles can't reach Israel. Most of the ones that can reach Israel will miss their targets, malfunction, get intercepted, or get blown up before they get launched. Second of all, you really overestimate conventional weapons, and underestimate the amount of infrastructure Israel has.
Stuxnet was never intended to completely destroy the Iranian nuclear program. It's merely a technological demonstrator for greater things to come. One of many tests.
Aside from Stuxnet, there was another virus that attempted to destroy Iranian centrifuges by overpressuring them with uranium hexafluoride gas.
Another virus just aimed at recording information inside those facilities.
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