The government's decision to release the video ensures that potential adversaries get the opportunity to see the devastation wrought by the powerful weapon as it unfolds, at a time when the Trump administration is facing down a tense situation in North Korea, just days after launching 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield.
The Mother Of All Bombs that obliterated 36 ISIS militants and a rat-nest network of tunnels and caves was 'the best weapon to clear an obstacle' in an ongoing offensive against 20 terror groups in Afghanistan, although the terror group denied it had suffered any casualties.
Amaq, the news agency affiliated with Islamic State in the Middle East, carried the statement citing an unidentified source who had been in contact.
After dropping the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat in Eastern Afghanistan, the Pentagon has confirmed it received no orders to flex military muscle and that it had been merely a decision taken on the ground.
