I imagine it was a depot holding more than a few hundred tons of explosives.
Nuclear weapons are measured in kilo-tons, a tactical nuke being .25kt and lil boy being 10kt
The average cargo ship carries upwards of 25kt of cargo. If this depot held even half a cargo ship worth of explosives, this is likely similar to a nuclear weapon yield without the fallout
Not a nuke. No eye melting flash. Probably warehouse with fireworks or possibly conventional munitions. It was on fire and you can see some small stuff going off before the big boom in this video:
That shape has absolutely dick to do with anything but the size of the explosion and the amount of moisture in the air when it went off.....
the cloud you're seeing here is not at all like the ones you're comparing it to in nuclear explosions.
If you watch a bunch of nuclear explosions sometimes you will see some white fluffy clouds moving outside of the main mushroom cloud. THAT is what you're seeing here. What you're comparing is apples to oranges.
Its pretty well documented that explosions above a certain scale all just form mushroom clouds. Part of how thero and aerodynamics are I guess. Put enough boom in one place...mushroom cloud.
I imagine it was a depot holding more than a few hundred tons of explosives.
Nuclear weapons are measured in kilo-tons, a tactical nuke being .25kt and lil boy being 10kt
The average cargo ship carries upwards of 25kt of cargo. If this depot held even half a cargo ship worth of explosives, this is likely similar to a nuclear weapon yield without the fallout
Not a nuke. No eye melting flash. Probably warehouse with fireworks or possibly conventional munitions. It was on fire and you can see some small stuff going off before the big boom in this video:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1290679069005230081
To me it looked like a leprechaun to me. https://media2.giphy.com/media/l4FGx3MWaVRzQStHO/source.gif
That shape has absolutely dick to do with anything but the size of the explosion and the amount of moisture in the air when it went off.....
the cloud you're seeing here is not at all like the ones you're comparing it to in nuclear explosions.
If you watch a bunch of nuclear explosions sometimes you will see some white fluffy clouds moving outside of the main mushroom cloud. THAT is what you're seeing here. What you're comparing is apples to oranges.
Missing the super high energy plasma associated with a nuke, which is a much more significant fact than the shape of the cloud.
The shape of that cloud has absolutely nothing to do with a nuclear explosion.... sure I guess it kind of looks like a nuclear explosion, but no.
Its pretty well documented that explosions above a certain scale all just form mushroom clouds. Part of how thero and aerodynamics are I guess. Put enough boom in one place...mushroom cloud.