Initial military assessments of the buried nuclear site contrast with the statement on the strike there made by President Trump.

The United States inserted itself into Israel’s war against Iran by dropping 30,000-pound bombs on a uranium enrichment site early Sunday, raising urgent questions about what remains of Tehran’s nuclear program and how its weakened military might respond.

It was an unprecedented attack years in the making, with some last-minute misdirection meant to give the operation a powerful element of surprise.