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That Mother of All Bombs Was Just Waiting For the Right Target

Published: April 17, 2017, 8:59 a.m.

When the US dropped a 22,600-pound bomb near suspected ISIS tunnels in Afghanistan\u2019s Nangarhar province on Thursday, the blast from the explosion would have rushed into the furthest reaches of the mountain complex about a mile away. The GBU-43, known as Moab\u2014short for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or, colloquially, Mother of All Bombs\u2014is the largest non-nuclear, non-penetrating bomb in the US arsenal. And until now, this mother had never been used outside of a testing facility.