Giant Bomb Was 'Right Weapon' For Attack On ISIS, U.S. General Says
The nearly 22,000-pound bomb killed at least 36 fighters and destroyed "large quantities" of weapons when it struck a network of tunnels, an Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman says.
"This was the right weapon against the right target," U.S. Army Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr. said, the morning after the U.S. dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat on an ISIS underground complex in Afghanistan.
The bomb was dropped in the Achin district of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. shows it hitting at the lower edge of a mountain, along a narrow valley, producing a huge shock wave and blast plume.
