People want to believe this is a small nuke.

[Altarboy]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ObN0sZ9GYQA

Isn't it way too small for even a small nuke?

[raxar]

If a nuke went off that close those people would all have been fried.

Also is there anything they don't break out the monkey chattering for?

[Altarboy]

Yeah they make the most annoying sounds. Like a nation of Yoko Onos..

[Richard Simmons]

That is a fuel explosion not a nuke.

[Hatedbysheeple]

Not a nuke, just what happens when you stash all your bang in one place. The mushroom cloud forming is a function of the heat of the explosion, the pressure of the explosion, and the atmospheric temperature gradient, 20 lbs of explosives can make a mini mushroom cloud if the weather is right.

Also all the sparkly stuff is the rest of the explosives/fertilizer deflagrating after being kicked out by the initial explosion.

Also the smoke is dirty, so probably homemade explosives with a less than perfect ratio or ingredient purity.

Finally here is an actual small nuke, the Davy Crockett at 20 tons tnt equivalent.

[Phil125]

The GPS II and III constellation currently in space has nuke detection on them. If a nuke goes off they know instantly.

[l921428x]

BS who planned to have 4 different camera angles? And why is similar cloud 3/4's of the way through the vid get
swung away from. It was a mushroom cloud also. If a airbourne or ground nuke had gone off the whole fucking world would
know, with no possible way to hide it.

[tank_monkey]

A great looking explosion, but not a nuke.

also

Wouldn't the EMP of an actual nuke fry all the electronics near by?

[rci2950]

definitely not a nuke. Also notice the comments are disabled on that video because of the amount of people saying the same thing.

[Avanarts]

I didn't watch that much of it. The guy who made the video can't even spell properly.

[sevlex]

I've seen this footage before. It was labelled as a direct hit on an ammo dump.

[Krupski]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ObN0sZ9GYQA

Isn't it way too small for even a small nuke?

Well, here's what I see.....

First, it's one HELL of a big blast. Even large HE (hundreds of tons) explosions do not make long lasting bright incandescent fireballs.

But, a tell-tale effect of a nuclear detonation is missing... the purple glow of the atmosphere directly around the blast site, caused by the intense radiation. In a real nuclear blast, the mushroom cloud typically has a purple glow surrounding the mushroom cloud. But, given that the blast happened in daylight, maybe it's just not visible (the purple).

Something strange I noticed though... on SEVERAL different videos of that blast, there were speckle artifacts in the image. CCD imagers typically do not speckle like that. And, it was several different videos, so it's not a quirk of one particular camera.

Look at this SOHO image of the sun:




The image on the right is the telescope's CCD imager flooded with high energy protons from the sun, causing the speckling.

As far as the people who filmed the blast in Yemen (and if it was a puropsely designed NEUTRON bomb), the people could very well survive the initial blast at the distances they were... but they are dead men walking... they will die of radiation poisoning in a week or less.

That is, IF it was a nuke... and I can't imagine that it really was. If not, though... I sure would like to know what made such an AWESOME blast.

[jojo]

Whatever it was it needs to happen more often and in closer proximity to large Middle Eastern and North African cities.