As tensions escalate between Iran and Israel, much of the world is watching the conflict as political spectacle. What remains dangerously under-examined is the possibility of radioactive fallout from a direct attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, which could maim or kill tens of thousands and create a perilous precedent.United States President Donald Trump has publicly considered bombing Iran’s Fordow nuclear site, buried deep beneath a mountain and fortified with layers of reinforced concrete. A strike would likely require 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs deployed by B2 stealth bombers. “I may do it. I may not do it,” he said, his characteristic ambiguity cloaking the severity of such a decision. While his political base discourages foreign wars, there is little public reckoning with the risks of nuclear contamination.
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