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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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

there are a great deal of sociopolitical issues that come along with use of nuclear weapons that you don’t get with conventionals that even greatly exceed tactical nuke capacity.

the W54 tactical nuclear warhead was built as small as 10 ton yield…not megaton, just ton…almost identical to the conventional MOAB.

but you can drop MOAB bombs on targets all day long and nobody bats an eye, drop one tactical nuke and you’ve likely triggered WWIII