BREAKING NEWS: U.S. drops "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan, marking weapon's first use

In this image from video, the cloud rises after detonation of U.S. Air Force’s Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB, Tuesday, March 11, 2003, in Florida, after a test of the biggest bomb in the U.S. arsenal.  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Source: CBS

The U.S. dropped a bomb containing 11 tons of explosives on an ISIS cave complex in Afghanistan’s Nangahar province on the border with Pakistan on Thursday, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed to CBS News’ David Martin. The bomb, officially called a GBU-43, is known as the “mother of all bombs.” It is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and has never before been used in combat. The Afghanistan strike had been in the works for a number of months. The weapon was brought into Afghanistan specifically for this mission, Martin reports.

General John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was required to get permission to use the weapon, but it’s unclear how far up the chain of command his request was approved.

The The: MIND BOMB

Armageddon days are here again - 1989

"They're 5 miles high as the crow flies

Leavin' vapour trails against a blood red sky

Movin' in from the East toward the West

With Balaclava helmets over their heads, yes!

But if you think that Jesus Christ is coming

Honey you've got another thing coming

If he ever finds out who's hi-jacked his name

He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave

Islam is rising

The Christians mobilising

The world is on its elbows and knees

It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

It's war, she cried, It's war, she cried, this is war

Drop your possessions, all you simple folk

You will fight them on the beaches in your underclothes

You will thank the good lord for raising the union jack

You'll watch the ships out of harbour

And the bodies come floating back

If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today

He'd be gunned down cold by the C.I.A.

Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass

Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart

But God didn't build himself that throne

God doesn't live in Israel or Rome

God doesn't belong to the yankee dollar

God doesn't plant the bombs for Hezbollah

God doesn't even go to church

And God won't send us down to Allah to burn

No, God will remind us what we already know

That the human race is about to reap what it's sown

The world is on its elbows and knees

It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

Armageddon days are here again"