The 30,000 pound munition, equipped by the U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bomber may be the only aerial bomb that can reach Iran's Fordow nuclear site.

Israel's escalating conflict with Iran over its increased nuclear as brought up speculation about the possible use of one of America's powerful weapons in the conflict.

While U.S. President Donald Trump is clearly weighing his options to strike Iran or not, a new wrinkle in his calculus may be emerging. Those famed bunker-buster bombs, the GBU-57, might not be the magic bullet some experts and the media are making them out to be.