InvaderSkooj

Not necessarily B41 bomb ca.1960 25Mt compared to modern B83 bomb 1.2Mt. The B83 isnt even more efficient than a presumably ancient weapon designed in the 1950's. Given that the UFP is run by pacifistic space hippies, it would seem to be entirely out of character for them to develop more powerful weapons, considering that the US and Russia havent, and both are much more militaristic than the UFP

Shhh youre not supposed to mention that part

The lack of anything clearly being ejected into space, and recognizable fireballs of sufficient duration clearly precludes any of the weapons operating through any DET method. At best they are operating under treknobabble of the highest order

Last I checked planets were spherical thus the ship could only be directly above one. the rest would be at a varying angle and look something like here we have a small kinetic impact, i guess they put a nuke in the asteroid A multi teraton kinetic impact, i guess the fireball is from the nuke they planted there Large explosions produce large fireballs which are quite lacking from TDiC

Last i checked mushroom clouds looked like this And they come from large bright fireballs Guess what TDiC doesnt have?