there are giant bombs like MOAB with the same explosive power of a small tactical nuke. Why don’t they just use the small nuke?

Question

there are giant bombs like MOAB with the same explosive power of a small tactical nuke. Why don’t they just use the small nuke?

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Answer 1

Your premise is incorrect.

The MOAB weighs 21,700 lbs, 18,700 lbs of which is warhead.

That is not even 10 tons of conventional explosives.

In what world does “10 tons of conventional explosives” get prefaced with “not even”? One where nukes exist, one of the smallest being the [W54](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54), whose LOWEST yield estimate was 10 tons TNT equivalent.