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Never used, tested in 2003, the m.o. ap is a bond that is pushed out of the back of a c-130 aircraft. its blast radius is 1 mile wide, the top general in afghanistan didn't need to ask permission to conduct the strike, the target of the explosion was a series of tunnels near a province, mega heart and american greenbrae was killed by small arms fire, green beret. part of an ices clearing operation, the u.s. military said the strike today was not in risk allocation for the green beret's death. after meeting with nato secretary at the white house, national security advisor is leaving soon for af...

There just along the border. this is video of when this bomb was originally tested. you can see the blast radius is about a mile that cloud is going to go about 10,000 feet in the air. and equally important to the fireball here is how it sucks all of the oxygen out of the area where it explodes. so it penetrates down in terms of its killing ability in to a cave complex like the one there in afghanistan that isis had taken over. the "wall street journal" reports that that cave complex was originally used as a gem mine and now is being used by isis as a staging area and a military compound. rath...

The lives of any taliban fighters who might be in there or do we know? >> this is a concussive weapon, that means it explodes above those tunnels. the force of the blast would kill anything inside those tunnels, but it is not a penetrating bomb. again, it was first tested in 2003, and we used to hear about it being talked about in conjunction with if there were a military action against iran's nuclear program and had to actually be used for tunnels they are where suspected parts of that nuclear program where based, that is when we started hearing talk of this moab b as it is called by the air ...

Forces group based out of the air force base, it is interesting to point out, it is clear this moab b bomb was tested, this 21,000 palm was tested in 2003. the air force used a mc-130, it is basically pushed out of the fact of the c-130, the largest weapon, 21,000-pound bomb, largest nonnuclear weapon in the air force arsenal. it's blast radius, just to give a sense of the size and scope of the weapon is 1 mile wide, so a blast radius of 1 mile. it is hard to imagine how you can minimize any sort of civilian casualties in that area, this is a mountain area on the edge of pakistan. it is an are...

>> meghan: jennifer griffin now joins us live from the pentagon. >> officials here tell me this is a local decision made by the top u.s. commander on the ground, general john nicholson. i'm told he took the decision on his own. the bomb was moved january. 21,000 pounds of a blast radius of 1 mile. you can see the video really from the pentagon why they call it the mother of all bombs. when the air force tested this weapon in 2003 at the start of the iraq war, the boom from the explosion reached 10,000 feet into the air. until yesterday, it was never used in combat. today, afghan officials say ...