It can evaporate the building yet only burn out cars with a thickness of about 2mm of sheet metal. Makes a lot of sense.
Disbelief,
You're getting warm (pun intended) in the above thought process, could you but realize it.
This tread is not about DEW, so I suspect the mods are going to send you a message. Perhaps you'd like to start one?
The analogy is Hiroshima. Prior to that particular war crime, no one had ever seen damage done that completely, that thoroughly and that instantaneously. DEW are, basically, a more sophisticated type of WMD that can be aimed and calibrated while nukes are indiscriminate. DEW, however, have some spill over effects, thus causing lighter (another intended one) damage at slightly greater distances from the aim point.
It is not practicable, in my view, to treat the subject of DEW casually. However, if someone wants to start a thread, fine. I am going to elect not to do so as I, quite frankly, don't have anything I need to prove to myself and I'm not inclined to start one absent some clear indication that the subject will be taken seriously. If one is started, I'll likely monitor it and contribute as I can.
Meanwhile, here's another of the mall with the ceiling clearly intact and with the store sign INNOVATION faintly visible on the left (you'll need a good monitor to see it). INNOVATION was a store in the mall.