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A hint would be that none of the mentioned munitions, MK-84, BLU-109, and GBU-39, are thermobaric. They're conventional HE or penetrator munitions.

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At least the MK-84 can use tritonal, which the article mentions specifically. When exploding it can raise the temperature to several thousand degrees.

If you can think of such tiny details. Then, surely, you can also answer the larger idea, no? What are these weapons, more in general? What are they used for normally, what are they designed to do?

And does the normal explanation perhaps make a lot more sense than pointing at the tiny details that fits a conspiracy theory?

What tiny detail? The whole point of the article is that they used bombs that can raise the temperature so high that it can “evaporate” people.

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