[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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[rbg81]

Yes, I did say it was very unlikely. No doubt the EU, the Russians, and others have technical means to detect such an event. I doubt that Bush would risk the political firestorm that would accompany use of a nuke, even a tactical one, unless it were the gravest of circumstances.