The “weapon” was detonated in a remote site, with NO outside observers…
There was NO “cratering” and NO radioactivity detected at the site… (admittedly it could take as long as a year for those gasses to escape)
Finally, the weapon was only estimated at 550 tons… (VERY small nuke, only 10% of what the Hiroshima bomb was in 1945)
Just a wild guess, but if you have a crappy hand in poker, you bluff…
I would bet money he “faked” a nuke demonstration for the attention, and the inevitable aid that would come if he were to “stop” further testing—besides who will call his bluff?
What do you guys think?