Fairly (long and) chilling article in the latest The New Yorker magazine by Seymour Hersh about the planning and internal debate -- which includes whether or not to use nuclear bunker-busting bombs -- against multi-various targets in Iran.
Sy Hersh has a long and good track record in these matters -- he has excellent contacts in the Pentagon and US State Department. Some of those contacts are clearly horrified with the policy-thrust and plans already cooked up by the gung-ho chickenhawks in the White House. Sy Hersh, The New Yorker: The Iran Plans
Mentioned several times in the Hersh article are the possibiities of massive air attacks against numerous Iranian installations of one kind or another.
One of the types of miltary aircraft that would be used in such attacks is the B-2 Spirit, that's the stealth bomber.
Home base for the B-2s is Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. But the B-2s also operate out of Guam (Pacific); the British -- but on long-lease to the US military -- island of Diego Garcia (Indian Ocean); and (what's more English than the Cotswolds?) USAF/RAF Fairford, (Gloucestershire, England).
For the time being, it is possible to get close enough to Fairford military airbase to take photos. If/when there is a security clamp-down on and around those Cotwolds' lanes: watch out for the flares lighting up the land of Iran. The photo above is of a B-2 at USAF/RAF Fairford and was taken in March 2006. Photo source: (unofficial) RAF Fairford
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