This is because a nuke going off is a large explosion. More people have seen footage of nuclear weapons tests than large conventional explosions like this one. Luckily there is YouTube and basic science education if you want to remedy thishttps://twitter.com/MJVentrice/status/1290677646242783232 …
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Here's a very similar shock wave effect from an explosion at a Texas fertilizer planthttps://youtu.be/b1UbSYOxhjU?t=8
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When you're not sure what you saw, a good rule of thumb to tell whether an explosion you saw video of was conventional or nuclear is to check the headlines of any newspaper on the planet for "NUCLEAR BOMB EXPLODES" before tweeting
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Something (probably stupid) I’ve always wondered: it is possible for a small, tactical, nuke to be confused for large conventional blast?
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Nuclear weapons have a distinctive flash. See this video of one of the smallest nuclear bombs the US builthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiM-RzPHyGs …
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Thanks, I had read about the DC didnt know there were videos of it. Interesting to think we deployed those things to West Germany.
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The pre-hydrogen bomb atomic weapons, back when people still thought you could use them in a war, were nuts. The complete answer to your question is that any size nuke is orders of magnitude hotter than conventional explosives, which is why the flash is a distinctive thing.
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