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Also, to clarify, Paris was not "nuked" in the traditional sense, it was a dirty bomb -- that means its scale and damage were limited compared to what happens with say, a Hiroshima-style nuclear detonation. Not only was the bomb jury-rigged, it was also a ground-level detonation.