[doorgunner69]

Fallout would be a bitch in that small area involved.

[golux]

As a percentage of the population I notice there are just as many Jew-haters on Free Republic these days as there are in the Middle East.

Hating Jews and Israel keeps certain small-minded people occupied as they type away on their Israeli-invented smartphones, Intel processors, Windows software, etc.

[DCBryan1]

Not if you use airburst, neutron, or peaceful nuclear explosions.

The 1962 Sedan nuclear test formed a crater 100 m (330 ft) deep with a diameter of about 390 m (1,300 ft) as a means of investigating the possibilities of using peaceful nuclear explosions for large-scale earth moving. If this test was conducted in 1965, when improvements in device design were realized, a 100-fold reduction in radiation release was considered feasible.

The added bonus for Israel is to utterly destroy underground tunnels up to ten times the range of the 1300m crater with minimal fallout and civilian casualties.