Actually, nobody suggests cluster bombs and daisy cutters. ( well, except me in the context of "death to America" rallies ... )

But whatever the classified descendant of the GBU-28 ('bunker buster') is, and whatever the Israelis have cooked up with similar technology could very well do the trick. It would certainly give anybody in the bunker one heck of a headache.

As I've said before, my guess is after the Israelis got their own nuke pretty much where they wanted them, bunker buster research was probably the next logical R&D step. When Saddam went into Kuwait it very much become a priority for us. Given the public specs of the stuff we know about I would guess both the US and Israel have some stuff that is generations ahead of that.

I don't think anybody - even the crazies - have visions of any kind of ground campaign in Iran to take out the nuclear program, but I would certainly expect to see a demonstration of air power if Iran doesn't start making completely different noises about nukes.

It really isn't very smart for them to be saying "Gee we'd really like to wipe out Israel and gee we'd really like to have nuclear weapons." Demonstrates bad survival skills.




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>One thing the opportunistic Sen. Lieberman doesn't mention is that according to our best intelligence, whatever nefarious nuclear activity Iran has going on is buried so deep underground that even cluster bombs and daisy cutters won't penetrate to it. To take that stuff out would require another messy ground campaign. (Oh, we need troops? Minor detail!) We really have to lose this illusion that we can achieve major military objectives from the sky, deus ex machina style.