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This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Blaine Holt, United States Air Force Retired General, about Fordo, the suspect nuclear weapons program in Iran, the most deep of all the caverns that Iran has constructed.

Natanz and Parchen are reported destroyed, but not Fordo.

So what we're looking at is what will work.

And Blaine introduces possibilities. But it's early days yet in the conflict.

Blaine Holt, the United States Air Force retired, General. More of this later tonight.

Well, I don't think, I think Fordo is so deep in the ground from what we know that there's really

no weaponry that can truly get down

into the caverns of the mission area. But that being stated, is the weaponry available to

make the same effect happen, which is Fordo is inoperative and not useful to anybody?

That is possible. I'm not altogether clear on whether there's already ground forces representing Israel in and around the Ford O facility.

And so there's many ways to get after this.

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