WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE (NewsNation) — It took more than 4,000 men and women for the U.S. military to execute an undercover assault on Iran’s most advanced nuclear facilities, marking the largest B-2 bombing mission in American history.

Seven B-2 bomber planes — with a price tag of $2.2 billion apiece — dropped fourteen 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators in an effort to wipe out the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, a heavily fortified nuclear site buried deep below a mountain near the holy city of Qom, and two other facilities.

This was the first time the MOPs, known as "bunker buster" bombs, were used in combat by the U.S. NewsNation was given unprecedented access to military officials who recounted the planning and execution of the mission. Those officials said thousands of disparate players had to play their parts perfectly for the attack to go smoothly.

“Think about it like a football team, everybody's got their different roles to play,” Col. Josh “Half” Wiitala, who was the overall commander of the mission, told NewsNation in one of his first interviews since completing “

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