IAEA finds no radiation leak in hours following U.S. strike against Iran’s nuclear targets

The United States attacked Iran’s three key nuclear facilities early over the weekend in an attack President Donald Trump said “totally obliterated” the enrichment facilities.

The strike, called Operation Midnight Hammer, solidified the nation’s involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran, media analysts said late Saturday night.

The attack involved American B-2 bombers, which were reportedly used to drop Boeing 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators, colloquially called “bunker busters,” on the Fordow and Natanz facilities, media reported. Tomahawk missiles were used to strike the Esfahan facility.

The B-2 stealth bomber, particularly the Northrop Grumman B-2A Spirit, is compatible with the B61-12, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) 2025 Stockpile Stewardship Management Plan.

“The strikes were a spectacular military success,” Trump said in an address to the nation late Saturday night, Eastern time. “Iran’s key nuclear nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”

Trump said Iran must “now make peace,” for “if they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.”

Analysis is still being done on the damage to the facilities, though Vice President JD Vance signaled Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is still intact, Wall Street Journal reported. Natanz is where Iran was enriching uranium up to 60%, far past the 3.67% needed for basic national security functions but short of the 90% needed for a nuclear weapon. It could only take a matter of months to close that gap, however, according to CNN.

Fordow, meanwhile, is hundreds of feet under a mountain, meaning smaller, conventional Israeli or even U.S. munitions could not destroy it and the bunker buster was needed.

In response to the attacks, international nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency said on the social media platform X there was no increase in off-site radiation levels following the attack, including Fordow. 

The IAEA executive director was expected to address the United Nations Security Council on the issue Sunday afternoon, according to X. 

Meanwhile, satellite photos last week have shown four B-52H bombers in the U.S.-U.K. base on the island of Diego Garcia, which could serve as a jumping off point for U.S. bombers. Air Force officials declined to say whether the aircraft are from the 2nd Bomb wing based in Barksdale, where Exchange Monitor affiliate Defense Daily was reporting from last week.

This is a developing story.