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Originally Posted by Noclevername
When we have conventional bombs that do almost as much damage as a tactical nuke, why would we risk earning the world's ire, by using one? Using a nuke would turn even our strongest allies 100% against us.
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A MOAB is big enough for an explosion to look like a nuclear explosion to amateurs due to similar airflow effects (mushroom cloud), but the actual level of power is very different. Its power is equivalent to about a dozen tons of TNT, not a dozen or more
kilotons like a tacnuc.