The B61-11 is the only US nuclear bomb specifically designed to penetrate the ground before detonating, making it capable of targeting deeply buried facilities beneath mountain terrain.
Analysts say the weapon’s design could make it relevant to targets such as Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, which Tucker Carlson has identified as a potential target amid claims that US President Donald Trump could consider a strike.
Any use of a nuclear weapon would break the longstanding international taboo against nuclear warfare, observed since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.