The US Military Has Just Dropped the Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever Used, on an ISIS Target

‘Mother Of All Bombs’

The U.S. military has just dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used on ISIS, in Afghanistan. The bomb reportedly has a 1-mile radius. It’s unknown what the exact target was, why now, how many casualties there were, among other questions. 

Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump “says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known as the GBU-43, which he said contains 11 tons of explosives,” the AP reports. Known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, it is nicknamed the “Mother Of All Bombs.”

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