Posted on 09/02/2017 4:43:00 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian
Of course China gave it to them. They’re China’s plausibly deniable attack dog.
A “portable” fission weapon (fits in a tunnel, a building, a truck, container, or ship? Certainly.
Fits in an airplane? Likely.
Droppable like a true bomb? No.
(If they really wanted to use a nuke weapon in the near future, they’d deploy it from a ship in a container that was not yet approaching customs - but close enough inshore to damage and destroy the local area, port, and city. To destroy their enemies, they’d need several hundred nukes. To intimidate the world’s news media and liberal politicians, they only need one.
And a second that they claim to have deployed.
But (in my opinion) they cannot yet fit their weapons (one, two, or a dozen) on a missile, launch it, and expect it to blow up near a target. yet. But that is their goal.
a fission reaction ie like the jap weapons were uranium based. the chain reaction was caused by using spherically shaped charge (fat man) to squeeze the uranium. a hydrogen weapon uses an atomic weapon to set off its chain reaction. our dial a bomb plutonium based systems require both plutonium and tritium. Anit it great that Clinton gave Pakistan our bomb design, worked out so well. almost as well as giving china loreal space systems guidance tech.
He gave the Chi-Comms the tech. I remember that well.
And yes, I recall the reactor deals to.
And the Chinese communists have given it to the Norks.
Along with the Russians and probably Pakistan.
How long before ISIS an Al Qaeda have it too?
Now won't that make for interesting times to live in.
Fat Man was a Plutonium implosion device.
For years I was on design work for the weapons in our current stockpile as well as some that have been removed.
The only reason for the U.S. hesitation are the S.Korean people. With that many millions of S.Koreans, is evacuation even a possibility?
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