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[SCP] Would a Thresher Device be more efficient than a onsite nuke?

In SCP-1730, the Thresher Device was the machine that transported the (completely fucked) Site 13 from an alternate universe to ours. Would this be a better alternative to nuking a Site to smithereens?
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It's critical that we don't quite understand how the Thresher device functions, or under what circumstances it was first designed and implemented. Some potential considerations:

- Given the ruthlessness of the Foundation in Site-13's native reality, it's possible the Thresher Device inherently requires research or materials so disturbing in their origin that "our" Foundation's O5 council or Ethics Committees vetoed pursuing it.

- While the Thresher Device functioned well under the circumstances it was activated, it may not be 100% reliable in nature. This might make it a "last resort, throw everything at it" contingency on the scale of SCP-2000, far beyond a mere nuclear detonation.

- A Thresher Device does not *destroy* a target, only moves it. A nuclear weapon destroys (hopefully). "Our" Foundation may consider shunting something sight-unseen into another reality to be an unacceptable loss-of-containment - other interdimensional SCPs are known, after all, and there's always the risk something might send it back - or worse, come looking for what sent it there.