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N. Korean nuclear blast probably less powerful than hoped for: Yale scholar
Yonhap News ^ | 05/28/09 | Sam Kim

Posted on 05/28/2009 6:44:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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Which means they will have more tests. It would also serve their political purpose, too.

If we let this slide, we will have the third and the fourth.... Eventually followed by ones from S. Korea and Japan.

1 posted on 05/28/2009 6:44:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 05/28/2009 6:45:17 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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Should we be surprised that someone from Yale thought it was “too small”?


3 posted on 05/28/2009 6:45:53 AM PDT by Sam's Army
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North Korea apparently failed to achieve desired explosiveness in its second nuclear test...

We should drop in a nuke bunker-buster and show them what a big boom feels like.

4 posted on 05/28/2009 6:46:16 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (Check out Puppy News at www.buyingapuppy.com)
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N. Korea celebrates their 2nd nuclear test at a mass indoor rally.


5 posted on 05/28/2009 6:46:31 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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Too small.. well I gues we have nothing to worry about. Good thing Obama will make all things right, or we’d still have major cause of concern.


6 posted on 05/28/2009 6:47:23 AM PDT by theDentist (qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

non-pc joke ahead, warning

“Wow, they DON’T all look alike...”


7 posted on 05/28/2009 6:47:32 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Sure!

not


8 posted on 05/28/2009 6:49:32 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Sam's Army
Yes, I wonder what his motivation was.:-)
9 posted on 05/28/2009 6:50:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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gee, what yield do they need to take out Seoul?


10 posted on 05/28/2009 6:51:19 AM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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That’s what I’m thinking... Sounds like they’re floating trial balloons, trying to minimize the seriousness of the test. “Look, they failed, they have problems...” Making an excuse for doing nothing. obama is gutless.


11 posted on 05/28/2009 6:52:20 AM PDT by CodeMasterPhilzar (I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom. You can keep the "change.")
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To: silverleaf

100 tons, 10 tons, 1 ton...

It doesn’t matter what the yield is. Simply the fact that it IS a nuclear explosion is enough to get the desired effect.


12 posted on 05/28/2009 6:53:47 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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"It was too small," he wrote on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, referring to the explosion.

Using what he called standard conversions, Park, a geologist, said North Korea appears to have produced a force of 4 kilotons or less through the test that took place in the northeastern region.

It all depends on how much fuel they used and what the target blast size was, all things this guy doesn't know.

Perhaps they made a bigger blast than planned, using only a small amount of fuel for testing a 3 KT miniaturized weapon and achieved greater efficiency than expected.

I doubt they are gong to supply the world with the data, so we can only speculate. I'd expect the worst.
Making old fat boy type nukes doesn't make much sense and is a big waste of their limited nuclear fuel. They're most likely trying to build modern miniaturized nukes for short the range missile capability they have.

13 posted on 05/28/2009 6:54:14 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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I’m sure 0bama or his advisors HAVE to know that “minimizing” the Norks efforts have a really bad cultural effect... they lose face, and they react.

If ‘bammy wants an analogy, it’d be like calling Al Sharpton “boy”.


14 posted on 05/28/2009 6:55:33 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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"We should drop in a nuke bunker-buster and show them what a big boom feels like."

Wouldn't that be embarrassing if our aging nuke failed to go off...

15 posted on 05/28/2009 6:57:10 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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Well, this story is off the mark. This was not a Hiroshima type nuke, which was a gun-type uranium, the Little Boy. This was a plutonium implosion-type bomb, like Nagasaki. Why did the writer pick a geologist as their "expert" on nukes?

The yield was very small, about 20% of Nagasaki. It is now suspected that was intentional and in fact planned. They are simply trying to make a nuke small enough for transport by missile and don't care if the yield is low because of portability measures.

A 4 kilo yield air burst at 800 feet would flatten any downtown core.

16 posted on 05/28/2009 6:57:18 AM PDT by gandalftb (An appeaser feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last......)
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Miniaturized nuke to be mounted on ICBM which can strike U.S. mainland is their ultimate goal. That is the way they can maximize their leverage against U.S.. Then against China, Russia, and Japan, too.
17 posted on 05/28/2009 6:59:18 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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As a geologist, his knowledge on using nuke effectively or the nature of nuke is limited.
18 posted on 05/28/2009 7:02:52 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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"gee, what yield do they need to take out Seoul?"

None. They have enough conventional weapons pointed at it to do the job. One day, when the wind is blowing north west, Obama has to toss a few low yield nukes along the DMZ to take that arsenal out, but without creating much fallout. Otherize, if the North koreans fire first, Seoul is done.

19 posted on 05/28/2009 7:04:13 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"

20 posted on 05/28/2009 7:04:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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