Double post, but uh, also kind of worth noting that roughly the border between UAE and Oman...

... is a mountain range.

So you'd have to go through the passes, which of course already have highways and towns.

... and basically everything south of Abu Dhabi is a nature preserve.

Also, not sure how out of date this is, but:

Presumably, you would not want to nuke an already existing oil pipeline.

... which my NukeMap 'path'... does, basically.

Yep, that's entirely correct.

I was trying to do a more low end, 'what would the damages be to the human environment,.at minimum' kind of thing.

And as best I can tell, yeah, it gets worse with bigger nukes, because more stuff gets vaporized and turns into fallout.

So you end up with radioactive sandstorms for... a decade or two?

Its insane, its like, intentionally trying to turn that penninsula into the fucking zone from Stalker.... maybe Fallout Dust, the New Vegas mod?

Sorry for the video game analogies but I ... I have no other frame of reference.

I cannot overstate how insanely bad of an idea this is.