Israel cabinet minister suggests it may destroy Gaza with the nuclear weapons it has never admitted owning

It should be understood that not all nuclear weapons are city-destroying devices. The smallest yield (publicly known) nuclear devices are between 1 and 10 kilotons. Hiroshima was about 15 kilotons. The Swift device was 0.19 kilotons. Man-portable nukes are definitely low-yield, but yet still highly devastating.

So the argument that use of nuclear weapons is infeasible because of the damage it will potentially cause to the rest of Israel needs to be tempered with the reality that small nukes exist and insane madmen who have access to them are even more likely to use the little ones than the really, really big ones.

Either way this insanity must stop and if there is anything that should unite us all, it is the revulsion towards anyone who would threaten the use of nuclear weapons on other human beings. Disarmament is one thing we should all be supporting.

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