The Dear Leader's Peoples' Committee for Cultural and Racial Diversity of the North in Praising the Great Works of Communism holds its weekly meeting -- NY Times
Posted on 05/28/2009 6:44:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
I still believe that these “tests” are for military purposes first (see the small bomb theory), and advertising second to potential buying who can send over cash to keep the regime afloat.
Exactly. That’s why this geologist is dead wrong in thinking they are building primitive fat boy type nukes.
They would be concentrating their efforts on making modern miniaturized nukes similar to ours, and NOT wasting their limited plutonium supply. A 4KT blast could mean they had a very successful test, after following the directions at ‘howstuffworks.com’ LoL!
Their goal isnt a miniature deliverable. They just need something that goes “boom” down in a hole. That achieves Kim’s goal of squeezing money out of the USA. We got a weak naive president in January. He figured out how to play his guy in a nanosecond.
The proper way to measure the yield of a North Korean is not in Kilotons,,,it’s more properly measured in billion’s of dollars bluffed out of the USA!!
For all we know, they were testing a nuclear trigger. Our nukes have triggers that put out as much power as the nagasaki bomb.
And supplied them with a design and a bucket of fissile material...
the homogeniety always astounds me.
I can’t believe that. They want regional power as well, power over Japan, a deterrence to China and Russia, major influence over S.korea, and something salable, which they THEN can blackmail billions from the USA with, much like Pakistan does.
The Dear Leader's Peoples' Committee for Cultural and Racial Diversity of the North in Praising the Great Works of Communism holds its weekly meeting -- NY Times
Not a lot of “empathy” in NoKo.
Surely people don't think their scientists are cave men.
WOW...they look “happy.”
Gee, ya think?
The psychological effect is HUGE as well.
Just “North Korea Nukes Seoul”, no matter what the yield, is enough to cause huge disruptions worldwide.
And, for all we know, Obama will get his high powered foreign policy team together (aka Hillary) and start tough negotiations with North Korea. But first, they’ll need to offer them something as a sign of good faith...something like our nuclear trigger technology...yeah, that’ll get North Korea to come back to the bargaining table...
They also told us that “nuclear shelters” wouldn’t work. Not against a volly of bombs by the major nuclear powers but ultimately there were people in Japan who were partially burned by where they were exposed.
Depends on the yield of the bomb.
If you are at ground zero you don’t have much hope but beyond that...
I went through tornado drills living on the Gulf Coast. Maybe he was just confused. Or lying again.
What’s the carbon footprint?
Where is the no nukes crowd?
How many animals and weeds were killed?
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