Nuclear weapons do not work like this FRiend and as little faith as I have in our neocon masters this is reckless speculation and exhibits a complete lack of understanding of how such weapons function.
PS - the Beirut explosion with simple ammonium nitrate was far larger than this one. I believe it was between 500-1100 tons.
Good shout. That dockyard KaBOOM was bigger than this, and was non nuclear.
If the massive pile of stuff in waters off the Thames Estuary go up, expect spectacular KaBOOM but it won’t be nuclear.
Was there a bright flash consistent with a nuclear detonation? No. The dark mushroom cloud is more indicative of fossil fuel, plastics and timber.
And our resident nuclear speculators don’t ask the most compelling questions.
Like, even China has warned Putin that triggering a nuclear accident by taking reckless action would be their red line for supporting Moscow, yet Moscow is still deliberately targeting stuff that they know is very close to operational nuclear power plants, spent fuel, cooling lakes.
One rocket going off course to take out a cache of ammo that’s nowhere near the front line yet could trigger a major nuclear incident.
Of course the mad vatnik cold war level paranoia that gave us the cover-up of Chernobyl and Kursk won’t mind if such an incident did come to pass, because it’ll automatically be someone elses’ fault.
Even if Ukraine was putting a tempting legitimate target close to something that could go nuclear, no sane regime on the planet would risk hitting it by accident.
Didn’t Russia itself make that very same point last year when complaining about Ukraine lobbing rockets into Enerhodar? (While it was firing missiles from inside Enerhodar, as well as from the east and south of Enerhodar, that flew directly over the nuclear plant!)