A reactor in Tehran is a monument to the U.S. relationship with Iran when the country was led by a secular, pro-Western monarch.

As the U.S. deployed decoy B-2 bombers west over the Pacific, military officials quietly sent a “strike package” east over the Atlantic to hit nuclear facilities in Iran. WSJ breaks down Operation Midnight Hammer.

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