B-2 stealth bombers equipped with microwaves and restrooms undertook a 36-hour mission to attack Iran's Fordow nuclear plant. The high-tech aircraft, designed for nuclear strikes, executed the operation with minimal communication and support from fighter jets.

The heart of operation “Midnight Hammer” was a feint.A group of American B-2 bombers — the only jets capable of deploying 30,000-pound bunker-buster munitions with a shot at breaching the mountains shrouding Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility — flew west across the Pacific Ocean.

This story has been updated to reflect that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said that B-2 Spirit bombers used as a decoy prior to