btw, this is a great read... just read a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse Five, in which he describes the destruction of Dresden in WW2.
this was a fire bombing, not explosives but primarily high temperature oil based with explosive priming and hard shells to make a maximum amount of pressure before it bursts, they call them "saturation bombs".
these cause huge fire storms where there is so much heat that everything made out of wood nearby is basically carbonised to charcoal and the air is so turbulent from the pressure effect from the heat that it forms tornadoes briefly, sucking loose objects even as big as people into them to be carbonised.
after the quote from that book, it explains how most of the things associated with "nuclear" bombs is exactly the same as a saturation bomb, it's just a really fucking big saturation bomb, the nuclear part is propaganda. at most they may put a bit of uranium into it to make sure that geiger counters get happy because the usual main thing that uranium, and plutonium do when you smack them together is they liquify and then boil into vapor, which of course will then spread around everywhere with the turbulent fire that is the actual weapon.
this can even happen without radioactive material just from a mostly silica/metallic object like a meteorite, you may have heard of the "Tunguska Incident" or idk what it was, event... a large area of forest in siberia was blasted by some mysterious explosion - what it was was a meteor that flew past at a very low angle, and before it hit the ground it exploded, likely due to trapped gasses inside it that eventually built up so much pressure they blasted the rock apart that was at incredible (like 10k celsius) temperatures, and this then combines with the heat effect on all that carbon fuel sitting there in the forest, which then starts a combustion chain reaction, and it flattened several square miles of the forest to the ground, and blew down much of the forest for miles around that initial blast radius
nothing magical about fire bombs but they are just a natural phenomena being used by maniacs to kill people and a whole theatrical production was made that these very large fire bombs they made were made out of super secret technology that was in fact never really tested, didn't even have a decent integration test, and then supposedly it just worked the first time, and while that was happening, the supposed first nuclear bombs, the ones dropped on japan, were already en route to be loaded on a bomber and used to incinerate japanese people even though the emperor had already decreed they were to surrender.
i'm convinced now after reading this that stupendous amounts of the mythos around nuclear power and the space program has all just been a cover for funding much worse things like uranium tipped bullets and chemical weapons and biological weapons.
like even right now, why do you think that they are pumping AI so much? because they need as many investors to get suckered in as possible to bring the technology to the point where they can make drones the size of a mobile phone that can selectively kill people and target precise soft points in infrastructure.
probably the entire major stories of the whole of the 20th century are based on military plans. even the big highways and the auto industry and the way they are basically eliminating trains everywhere except ... trains are safer, quieter, cost less to build and maintain and are easy to electrify so they don't produce a lot of pollution around the residential areas they pass through. unlike cars. which stink, are noisy, the roads are more expensive to build, require more material and break faster, and kill more people. actually you can point at the boom in air travel in the last 20 years or so as probably being promoted to empower military industrial purposes too. because i'd rather travel across the ocean on a boat, myself. and on land, in a train, and when i get out of the train, i ride my bike back home, or even walk.
