WI Gadaffi develops nuclear weapons, uses them on protesters?

Libya ended its WMD program in 2003 after 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. But what if they persisted in their ambitions and manage to assemble some crude bombs without the west ? Though less likely than in the other North African states due to oil revenue, popular dissatisfaction is going to eventually boil over in the region. Seeing nothing to lose after the *intervention, he orders one to be left in a medium sized city and detonates it once it falls.
 

Sumeragi

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All I can say is: Overkill. I'm certain that someone would not follow orders for that kind of operation....

Or am I just too naive to believe in human rationality?
 
If Gaddafi had nukes and this was known to the outside world, it's unlikely NATO would have performed airstrikes as in OTL. They had already known that Gaddafi could just as easily launch the nuke at Rome or Naples. So ITL would be like Saddam's crushing of the 1991 uprisings.
 
Honestly if not for the fact that this was nuclear there would probably be no greater reaction than the one to the Hama massacre in Syria
 
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