I can’t be completely sure, but I looked really hard at this. It’s very strange that the public record states that 2 nuclear weapons have been used in combat, because I can find quite a few artifacts that show they may be used quite commonly (small “tactical” nuclear weapons).
I spent days and days and days trying to understand if nuclear weapons are being used and I found multiple pieces of evidence. Some of the evidence surrounding Tartus I see is widely disputed but you’ll see here that there is misunderstanding of eg how much radiation would be emitted. I found a PhD physicist that has analyzed all of the information around the Syrian site and has concluded that the weapon was nuclear. I have other supporting evidence of nuclear weapon use I’ll cover after looking at the depot bombing in Tartus.
Took me hours and hours but I found two researchers – one analyzing soil in gaza and another physicist – Benjamin Braun – who had collaborated with people to analyze the site of the December Syrian weapons depot explosion. I’m going to ignore the soil research for the moment, and focus on the recent Syrian weapon’s depot explosion, as it has some interesting attributes.
(I posted the link to the tweet at the bottom of the article.)
Without geiger tests there, I’m not 100% sure if this was just a large conventional bomb or a small 0.3kt B61-12 or B61-13.
I would guess a B61 with subterranean detonation. The blast was calculated at 0.3kt and what is the loadout on a B61? 0.3kt in the lowest configuration. They have various load-outs down to sub-kiloton up to an estimated 340kt. And the B61 has multiple configurations for delivery and detonation (“air burst”, “ground burst”, lay-down w/ a chute so the pilot can get away, etc).
The target was an ammo depot – I was watching some videos of the US tests of an unarmed B61 and they will cut through the earth like butter. You don’t see the CMOS sensor lighting up in video footage, but it’s detonated underground. It was a MASSIVE explosion that would have decimated anything within 300m of ground 0 – this guy recording is very far away. It was registered as an earthquake.
So you have to assume there will be radiation detected if it’s nuclear. I can’t find anyone who is measuring at ground 0 – it’ll be detectable for a few weeks so I’m hoping to find someone take a gieger counter and see it’s over ambient to be able to be sure.
18 hours after the explosion radiation levels spiked in Cypress and Turkey but the readings were not significant. This caused people to dismiss the radiation levels as a correlate of the explosion, but the DoD data for a clean nuclear weapon w/ 0.3kt yield is in line with the observations made at Cypress and Turkey. This is in line with one of the newer clean US nuclear weapons according to the DoD data (below).
Here is another video of Syria. You can tell how far away he is by how many seconds pass before the shockwave rattles him. I’m guessing this is about 20km away assuming it blew up 20s earlier.
So, I had to ask myself then, how many more are there that have been deployed? I eventually stumbled upon a paper analyzing samples of soil from Gaza that found anomolous enriched uranium. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378175255_Anomalous_Enriched_Uranium_in_environmental_samples_from_Gaza
It includes some past evidence as well.
I think that’s enough for now. I’ve found other, older videos of other strikes with obvious artifacting on the CMOS of the camera from bomb recordings in Lebanon from years ago, likely due to charged particles. That’s in line with the quote about the radiation levels in the analyzed crater. I’m having a hard time finding that video right now tho, and they’re really hard to analyze without a doctor looking at it – the artifacts included are from advanced professionals.
Absolutely 0 discussion of this in any media outlet anywhere that I can find except about 4 artifacts from various indian news. I found one untranslated video I parsed and they also suggested it was a B61.
A few days after the attack, the US unveiled a new B61-13 production was complete for the first batch, and they have been producing the B61-12 since 2022. It’s a weird co-incidence – just days apart from concluding a batch of new weaponry.
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