Publisher’s Note: President Donald J. Trump has enunciated a Motto and a Doctrine that recalibrates American foreign policy. Trump’s Motto is a revival of sorts, used throughout history by winners: “Peace through Strength.” The Great Seal of the United States has both Arrows and an Olive branch. Ancient Rome, during the time of Marcus Aurelius and as depicted in the movie Gladiator, the same concept was labeled: “Strength and Honor.”
Operation Midnight Hammer is aptly named, as its goal was not just that the nuclear sites – Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant, Natanz Nuclear Facility, and Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center – be “obliterated” by B2 sharpshooter-pilots delivering the mother of all bombs – were targeted with fourteen GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) “bunker buster” bombs – into a series of “X,” marks the spot, but to prove to all nations, and groups, who might think America lacks the resolve to act and the ability to deliver precise death and destruction on command, that Trump-led America must be feared, and any “Red-line” is deadly serious, unlike before when its was merely a line in the sand that wind could wipe out.
Operation Midnight Hammer was individual and general deterrence, which has been fully achieved, and hence, Trump’s decisive action will prevent some wars from even starting. Due credit is due to President Trump’s cabinet, especially Secretaries Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, along with and Dan “Razin” Cain, Chairman of Joint Chiefs, and all service members who aided and abetted the 37 hours B2s were in the air to effectuate American resolve. Peace through Strength.
Trump Doctrine: Let it be.
But it’s the Trump Doctrine, which is much more significant than the Monroe Doctrine or the Trump Motto, as Trump declared in Riyadh on May 13, 2025 labeled “Dawn of the bright new day for the great people of the Middle East,” which could really be labeled “Trump recalibrates American Foreign Policy for the Next 250 Years”: America will no longer export our exceptional form of government and culture to other nations, but instead will “let other nations be”: what their history and culture has created over time to exist without interference.
This is a monumental change of American foreign policy. It takes our hubris of being exceptional out, and brings God-desired humility back into our dealings with others in the comity of nations, to accept others as they are, so long as their interests don’t conflict with our interests (this almost mimics a scene out of The Godfather movie).
Finally, to reassure Americans that the Trump Doctrine, announced in Riyadh with MBS beaming, is actually correct, one needs only remember that the original Star Trek’s primary imperative as embodied by Starfleet, was the Prime Directive. This directive mandated non-interference with other cultures and civilizations.
History will well judge President Trump with having resurrected America’s exceptional greatness, that we’ve had since our Declaration in 1776 and our separated-powers regime rooted in our Constitution from 1787. This is makes America great again, beyond any MAGA supporter dreamed off.
Operation Midnight Hammer proved America doesn’t just talk ad nauseam. America acts with precision to minimize collateral injury to the innocents and to shock and awe other nations’ military, incapable of being William Tell splitting an apple in half with a GBU-57A/B MOP fired from a B2.
As President Trump said recently, may God Bless the world and the United States of America. I sleep easier knowing nuclear winter will not happen during this Trump 47 presidency.
The U.S. Decisive Precision Strikes Eliminated Iran’s Key Nuclear Facilities
By The America Times
On June 22, the United States Air Force and Navy executed a strategic operation named “Midnight Hammer,” targeting three Iranian nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. This operation involved the deployment of seven B-2 bombers from the 509th Bomb Wing, which completed a non-stop flight from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. As articulated by the White House on June 25, 2025, these precision strikes, authorized by President Donald J. Trump, have significantly enhanced global security by dismantling critical components of Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
The U.S. President stated that “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term! The white structure shown is deeply imbedded into the rock, with even its roof well below ground level, and completely shielded from flame. The biggest damage took place far below ground level. Bullseye!!!”
According to a statement issued by the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, the devastating U.S. strike on Fordo destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. “We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years. The achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material,” the Commission highlighted.
Similarly, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir noted that the assessment is that “we significantly damaged the nuclear program, and I can also say that we set it back by years, I repeat, years.”
A declaration by Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei confirmed the devastating damages to Iran’s nuclear facilities. “Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that’s for sure,” the spokesman said.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance emphasized that the American people “are much further away from a nuclear program today than they were 24 hours ago”. “That was the objective of the mission, to destroy that Fordow nuclear site, and of course, do some damage to the other sites as well, but we feel very confident that the Fordow nuclear site was substantially set back, and that was our goal.”
The successful operation eliminated Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons, highlighted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
“Based on everything we have seen — and I’ve seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons. Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target and worked perfectly. The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission,” the Defense Secretary said.
“Given the 30,000 pounds of explosions and the capability of those munitions, it was DEVASTATION underneath Fordow … Any assessment that tells you otherwise is speculating with other motives,” he added.
The U.S. military also provided details about the successful precision strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“Initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction. More than 125 US aircraft participated in this mission, including B2 stealth bombers, multiple flights of fourth and fifth generation fighters, dozens and dozens of air refueling tankers, a guided missile submarine, and a full array of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft, as well as hundreds of maintenance and operational professionals,” said the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan “Razin” Caine.
“The Iranian program — the nuclear program — today looks nothing like it did just a week ago … That story is a false story and it’s one that really shouldn’t be re-reported because it doesn’t accurately reflect what’s happening,” stated Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He emphasized that “Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape … There’s no way Iran comes to the table if somehow nothing had happened. This was complete and total obliteration. They are in bad shape. They are way behind today compared to where they were just seven days ago because of what President Trump did.”
Special Envoy Steve Witkoff pointed out that the U.S. put 12 bunker buster bombs on Fordow. “There’s no doubt that it breached the canopy, there’s no doubt that it was well within reach of the depth that these bunker buster bombs go to, and there’s no doubt that it was obliterated — so the reporting out there that in some way suggests that we did not achieve the objective is just completely preposterous,” he explained.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi expressed similar views. “Given the explosive payload utilized, and the extreme vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges, very significant damage is expected to have occurred. At the Esfahan nuclear site, additional buildings were hit, with the U.S. confirming their use of cruise missiles. Affected buildings include some related to the uranium conversion process. Also at this site, entrances to tunnels used for the storage of enriched material appear to have been hit. At the Natanz enrichment site, the Fuel Enrichment Plant was hit, with the U.S. confirming that it used ground-penetrating munitions.”
“Overall, Israel’s and U.S. attacks have effectively destroyed Iran’s centrifuge enrichment program. It will be a long time before Iran comes anywhere near the capability it had before the attack,” highlighted Institute for Science and International Security President David Albright.
Also, Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program Deputy Director Andrea Stricker said: “I think that because of the massive damage and the shock wave that would have been sent by 12 Massive Ordnance Penetrators at the Fordow site, that it likely would render its centrifuges damaged or inoperable.”
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Ravi Batra, starting September 11, 2021, is a publisher ofThe America Times Company Ltd., and since January 2022, is the Editor-in-Chief. He is a member of the National Press Club, in Washington D.C., and a member of its "Freedom of the Press" and "International Correspondents" Teams/Committees.
A member of the bar since 1981, he is the head of a boutique law firm in Manhattan, The Law Firm of Ravi Batra, P.C., that handles complex constitutional, sovereignty, torture, civil and criminal cases, representing governments, corporates and individuals, with landmark legal victories, including, libel in fiction, in “Batra v. Dick Wolf.” He is Chairman & CEO, Greenstar Global Energy Corp., King Danylo of Galicia International Ltd., Mars & Pax Advisors, Ltd., Chairman of National Advisory Council on South Asian Affairs, and since September 2021, Advisor for Legal and Humanitarian Affairs to the Permanent Mission of Georgia to the United Nations. He is invited by various governments to address High Level Ministerial events, including, on Counter-Terrorism, including, Astana (Nur-Sultan), Dushanbe, Minsk and Delhi. He has testified in Congress as an invitee of the Chair, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, and interacted with U.S. Department of State from 1984 -1990, and then again, from 2006, during the tenures of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo and Antony Blinken.
He has served as Commissioner of New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE), Trustee on New York State IOLA Board, New York State Judicial Screening Committee for the Second Judicial Department, City Bar’s Judicial Committee, Vice-Chair of Kings County Democratic County Committee’s Independent Judicial Screening Committee for the then-2nd Judicial Department of Brooklyn and Staten Island, Chair of NYSTLA’ Judicial Independence Committee, with many more bar leadership roles, including, NYSBA’s House of Delegates for four years. He has served as Advisor for Legal & Human Rights Affairs to the Permanent Mission of Ukraine post-annexation of Crimea till 2021, and Legal Advisor to numerous nations’ permanent missions to the U. N. since 2009, including, India, Pakistan, Honduras and Malta. He has served: as Global Special Counsel to The Antonov Company in Ukraine, a state-owned company, and was registered with the Justice Dept pursuant to FARA; and as Special Global Advisor to Rector/President of both - National Aviation University of Ukraine and National Technical University of Ukraine/KPI. He remains involved in geopolitics and public policy since the mid-1980's, starting with being on House Speaker Tip O’Neill’s Speaker’s Club and appointed member of NACSAA during President Ronald Reagan’s tenure. In 1988, he was part of U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese’s Delegation to Japan to resolve bilateral trade imbalance. He regularly interacts with the multilateral diplomatic community, and during the High Level UNGA Debate, with heads of State/Government. He is sought for his views as a speaker and writer.