Is the US About to Nuke Iran? Here's What You'd See

Is the United States about to use a nuclear weapon on Iran? On Saturday the President named the target, a mountain called Pickaxe. America's biggest conventional bomb can't reach inside it, by the best public estimates. So we ran it, minute by minute: the order, the bomb, the blast, the fallout, what happens to the Gulf and the world. And then the part almost nobody is talking about: the uranium everyone is after is probably not in that mountain. So somebody would still have to go in. The mountain is real. The bomb is real. The clock is ours. No one has approved this, and the President has said he wouldn't use a nuclear weapon. Reported claims are attributed in the film. 3D shots are reconstructions and simulations. Blast footage is real US test film from Nevada in 1957 and 1962, labelled on screen; none of it shows Iran. Want to learn how to make informational videos like this? Sign up here: https://higgsfield.ai?fpr=steeldossier (affiliate link) CHAPTERS 0:00 Is the US about to nuke Iran? 1:11 The mountain 3:00 The order: option 5 4:33 The blast 5:50 The world 7:26 What they're after: 18 blue containers 9:19 You asked: your ideas, tested 11:22 Getting there: Eagle Claw, and April 2026 13:07 The perimeter: build an airport 14:26 The doors 15:28 The tunnel 16:59 Getting out 18:25 Your call SOURCES • National Academies, Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons (2005): https://www.nationalacademies.org/rea... • Federation of American Scientists, Video Shows Earth-Penetrating Capability of B61-12 (14 Jan 2016): https://fas.org/publication/b61-12_ea... • Arms Control Association, U.S. to Embrace Limited Nuclear War in New Guidance (24 Aug 2026): https://www.armscontrol.org/blog/2026... • Congressional Research Service, Defense Primer: Command and Control of Nuclear Forces • Institute for Science and International Security: Assessment of Blue Barrels (28 Mar 2026); Activity Remains Dormant at Pickaxe Mountain (16 Oct 2026); Pickaxe Mountain Elevation Profile (30 Oct 2026); Passive Defenses at Natanz and Pickaxe (17 Sep 2026); Makeshift Roadblocks at Esfahan (9 Apr 2026): https://isis-online.org/isis-reports • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Iran likely transferred HEU to Isfahan (29 Mar 2026) • IAEA, Director General Statement to the UN Security Council (27 Oct 2026) • CBS, Grossi on Face the Nation (22 Mar 2026): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rafael-g... • Washington Post via AOL, Risky commando plan to seize Iran's uranium (1 Apr 2026) • CNN via RNZ, Iran sealed uranium cache and placed mines (13 Jun 2026): https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5981... • AP via PBS, Securing Iran's enriched uranium by force would be risky (1 Apr 2026) • ABC via GMA, Large US special ops force needed (10 Mar 2026); CBS 60 Minutes (19 Apr 2026) • CNBC, Trump says he won't use nuclear weapons or send ground troops (16 Oct 2026): https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/16/us-ir... • Reuters via Al-Monitor, Ship attacks in Strait of Hormuz hit record high in October (23 Oct 2026): https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/... • Scientific American, War in Iran spotlights the risk to drinking water (28 Apr 2026): https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... • Al Jazeera, Why an attack on Bushehr would be catastrophic for the Gulf (5 Apr 2026) • Israeli final election results via Onmanorama (30 Oct 2026); Axios, Trump and Netanyahu (1 Nov 2026); JNS and Fox News, 31 Oct to 1 Nov • Stars and Stripes, Pentagon raises official death toll to 23 (29 Oct 2026) • National Security Archive, Project Sapphire 20th Anniversary: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSA... • Newsweek and Fox News, F-15E rescue accounts; The War Zone, site reporting; US Army, Nuclear Disablement Team and 21st Ordnance Company articles; WNTI UF6 Fact Sheet; NRC letter on the 1986 Sequoyah Fuels accident ARCHIVE FILM • Operation Plumbbob: Military Effects Studies (1957), US Department of Defense, National Archives 330-DFBBF-870041, public domain: https://archive.org/details/330-dimoc... • Project Sedan (1962), US Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration, public domain: https://archive.org/details/ProjectSe... • Eagle Claw wrecks at Desert One (1980), US military, USSOCOM History, public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Airfield damage repair training footage, US military (DVIDS). The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement. Music: YouTube Audio Library. Terrain: Copernicus Sentinel-2 and open elevation data. #iran #nuclear #military