posted on October 30, 2001 08:40:40 AM new
It's loading fine for me. It's really vague but is from AP. Says there was a huge explosion 25 miles north of Kabul that sent a mushroom cloud 1,000 feet.
Could that be nuclear?
It says no American planes were in the area at the time but had been earlier.
posted on October 30, 2001 09:12:15 AM new
What's in that picture ain't a nuke. No higher than that cloud is, there would still be a huge fire ball. Just a big firecracker.
posted on October 30, 2001 11:02:16 AM new
It could be a tactical nuclear weapon, but I doubt it.
Every nuclear power on earth would have to be notified that we were using nukes and someone would have blabbed to the press and insisted we not use them.
But if we are using tactical nuclear weapons, 3 cheers for Bush !!!!
posted on October 30, 2001 11:20:02 AM new
A cloud a thousand feet in the air is no big deal.
When a nuke goes off the fire ball sucks up into the Stratosphere 20 + miles.
They may have used a air/fuel munition.
It has about 500 gallons of fuel that is forced through a couple million laser drilled holes and then ignited. The shockwave wipes everything for about a quarter square mile. It is about equal in power to a kiloton mininuke. The overpressure under one is so great it can flatten a tank like abeer can.
