If you looked at a nuclear blast even without binoculars, you'd be instantly flash-blinded permanently, so actually looking at a blast through magnifying lenses like those in binoculars is just asking to led around by someone else for the rest of your life. It may look good in an image, but in reality, it's a whole other story altogether. The flash from a low yield nuclear explosions would burn away the retinas in human eyeballs, leaving the observer permanently blind, as it also flash fries the optical nerve along with the retinal screen.
If you looked at a nuclear blast even without binoculars, you'd be instantly flash-blinded permanently, so actually looking at a blast through magnifying lenses like those in binoculars is just asking to led around by someone else for the rest of your life. It may look good in an image, but in reality, it's a whole other story altogether. The flash from a low yield nuclear explosions would burn away the retinas in human eyeballs, leaving the observer permanently blind, as it also flash fries the optical nerve along with the retinal screen.