The War Department’s top innovators are taking aim underground.

With adversaries like Iran burying their nuclear and missile infrastructure deep beneath mountains, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is on the hunt for a new evolution of the bunker-buster bomb—this time focused on manipulating shockwaves instead of simply dropping monster munitions.

For decades, the world has relied on brute-force bombs to punch through concrete and rock. From the “Grand Slam” of World War II to ...

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