Why Did the U.S. Use the 'Mother of All Bombs' in Afghanistan?
The military says it was to destroy tunnels used by ISIS, but the group’s presence is becoming marginal.
The U.S. military’s announcement that it dropped the “mother of all bombs,” one of the largest non-nuclear devices, against an ISIS facility in Afghanistan comes despite the U.S. assessment that only about 700 ISIS fighters remain in the country. It’s the first time the bomb has been used on the battlefield.
The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), which In other words, while the MOAB is one of the largest nonnuclear bombs, it’s far smaller than most nuclear weapons the U.S. possesses or the ones it has used.
