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#syristacticalnuke There was a cause of great panic in Syria yesterday. Israel was involved in a military operation that resulted in a giant explosion. A mushroom cloud was seen. There was serious concern that a tactical nuclear warhead had gone off. Who owned the atomic weapon? Perhaps Syria had someway somehow gotten a nuclear weapon. Maybe it was Iran. Israel has nuclear weapons. It is implausible that they would use one in Syria.
Israel reported that its military forces in the process of neutralizing Syrian military capabilities had fired on a huge ammunition depot. A giant explosion followed. A mushroom cloud resulted. Nuclear weapons experts do not agree that it was a conventional explosion. Some say that there was a small nuclear explosion. Here is a link for those who are curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGsBLDwhHg
What is going on here? Let us assume that Israeli forces had discovered a small tactical nuclear warhead in the ammunition depot. Immediately a team of their nuclear weapons experts would have been at the scene of the discovery. The weapon would have been disarmed and quietly returned to Israel for careful examination.
More likely is that some low-yield nuclear device had been stored at the ammunition depot. When Israeli artillery opened fire and shells dropped on the ammunition depot the horrific conventional explosion detonated the small nuclear device.
If a nuclear device was stored here, we must assume that the Assad regime found some corrupt individuals and bought a small nuclear weapon. Pakistan would be a suspect. Most of its nuclear arsenal is small tactical nuclear weapons. Russia is another suspect with massive corruption and a large arsenal of small tactical nuclear weapons. This nuclear weapon would have been used by the Assad regime to intimidate potential adversaries.
When the white minority government was in power in South Africa, they built 6 Hiroshima-type nuclear bombs. Their objective was to deter potential powerful invaders. These weapons were turned over to an international nuclear agency that dismantled them and destroyed the components.
Strangely Admiral Kirby and US authorities are remaining silent on this matter. I wonder why.