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Adversaries? >> absolutely, greg. there is a reason that this size bomb, 21,000 pounds, a blast radius of a mild wide, the plume that would come from using a bomb like this is 10,000 feet in the air. the last time they tested it in 2003, that is how high the cloud rose up. inevitably, this has a psychological effect. but also it was used in a very remote part of afghanistan in nangarhar province. these were tunnels, not uninhabited area, per se. but back and forth, very close to the pakistan border, and i can't help but think, is much as they were saying this was a tactical weapon, it also has...

The largest nonnuclear bomb in our arsenal on afghanistan. the bomb is called moab, the mother of all bombs. the first time it's been used in combat. according to sean spicer, the target was a system of tunnels and caves used by isis militants. the u.s. military took all precautions to prevent casualties. that's according to the white house. this bomb has a blast radius of one mile. so it had to do significant damage to everything on the ground there. for president trump, he was asked about the strike about an hour ago and he was asked specifically does this send a message to north korea? list...

There, the fact that pakistan has not done enough to stop the taliban and isis fighters from passing back across that border and the fact that today the syrian president said that the u.s. had concocted the chemical weapon accusations and had carried out the attack with isis fighters in syria. all of this and then also, just a day after rex tillerson was in moscow, again, this is designed to send a psychological message as much as it was designed to kill anything. >> eric bolling? >> you talk about it 1 mile blast radius. we're so used to seeing reports of the actual blast. did we hit the inte...

>> jon: according to our room, this is the first time this particular weapon has been used in combat. it's power is described as being similar to that of a small nuclear weapon. we emphasize this is not a nuclear device. it is the largest nonnuclear bomb in the u.s. arsenal. they are, you see that mushroom cloud that emanated from it from this in 2003 for a test, as far as we understand, that was when it was first tested. the fact this thing has a 1 mile blast radius, is used against tunnels, bunkers, and armored concentrations. just about any taliban who would have been within that 1 mile are...

Nangahar province took place. u.s. pentagon, this was an moab, the largest bomb, as you pointed out, that's nonnuclear. first time we know of that the u.s. has used it in combat operations in afghanistan and anywhere around the world. the target according to the pentagon and afghans on the ground was an isis bunker facility up in the phupb taeupbs. there obviously is a huge concern about civil want casuallies that has a one mile blast radius. but according to the afghans and the pentagon, they are saying this was an area that was an isis pound. there were tunnels, caves and bunkers. this isn't...