US politicians claim mushroom cloud not nuclear

Well this is interesting. There was a sighting of a mushroom cloud over northern North Korea on Thursday. It was pretty big at 2\.1km across, and it left a mighty big hole in the ground that can be seen by satellite.

But, according to various politicians, it wasn’t nuclear.

There are other ways to generate a mushroom cloud, but the most likely and popular is nuclear. Maybe they got hit by a large, undetected meteorite or a Martian heat ray.

It’s making me a wee bit nervous anyway. Not necessarily because of what North Korea might do (as I doubt they can do much), but by what the dangerously trigger-happy (and currently electioneering) USA might want to do about it.