[rbg81]

I saw speculation the other day that the site was taken out by a tactical nuke. On the surface, that story seems very unlikely. However, I’m sure such an event would make the party on the receiving end to think long & hard about the next action to take or even word to utter.

[rightwingextremist1776]

Maybe not a nuke, but maybe some other type of ordinance that might not be public info. I’m sure they/we don’t want to tip our hand on what capabilities might exist....

[El Sordo]

I wonder if there is seismic data from that time period that would lend any credence to this.

[Congressman Billybob]

A tactical nuke would have left results at the site which do not show in the post strike photographs, either the ones before Syria tidied up and after. This was done, like the prior Israeli attack on an Iraqi reactor in the 1980s, was done with conventional bombs.

The "speculation" of the use of a nuke came from an Arab source who don't have a clue about cause and effect in nuclear explosions and assume equal ignorance among their readers / viewers.

Congressman Billybob

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[JLS]

Surely the jump in radiation from even a tactical nuke would mean there would be lots of people claiming they had evidence of this. Also I believe that Israel had guys on the ground infared marking the target, not something you would want to do if it were to be hit by a nuke?

[VOA]

“I saw speculation the other day that the site was taken out by
a tactical nuke.”

My naive prayer:
Israel, not bound like the US Military, ignored Worst-President-Ever
Jimmy Carter’s loopy moralizing...
and built and finally deployed one heck of a NEUTRON bomb a couple of
weeks ago.

And would let us buy some on credit if needed.