Posted on 01/05/2016 7:44:32 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Another failure of intelligence? Check Hillary’s email.
Lies until proven.
http://www.wired.com/2008/06/top-5-ways-that/
Plenty of ways to create artificial earthquakes.
That was one big propane bomb.
Look for a stern letter coming from Sec State Kerry (Vietnam).
Color me skeptical. Ivy-Mike would have weighed in at 8.6-8.7 in magnitude if detonated underground. And that was our first crack at it sixty years ago.
The interesting thing - what will China do. They will definitely be PISSED.
I’ve maintained all along - the Kim regime doesn’t fear the USA. What could we possibly do to him? Its China they fear, and nuclear tests are a message to China.
China is on the border, controls the DPRK economy, and probably has agents spread throughout the Kim regime, who would like to not have such a nutcase right next door.
Iran (thanks to Obama gift of $150 Billion) & Saudi Arabia are making bids.
This one must have REALLy pi&&ed him off.
However, it’s still not a small device. My guess: something similar to the Soviet RDS-6s “layered” bomb, which had layers of fissile material interspersed with lithium-6 deuteride. Approximate yield: just over 120 kT.
I was wrong. I was thinking of a neutron bomb.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Yes I do, unless someone in the Soviet Union or China deliberately gave it to them.
The difficulty of igniting a fusion reaction is magnitude levels of harder than lighting a fission reaction. It took our best scientists nearly a Decade to figure out how to do it, and then their first test was this gargantuan monstrosity which had to be constructed in place on an Island. Even then, only something like 20% of it's energy was the result of the fusion process.
To further clarify: Neutrons kill people well, but leave property rather unharmed and available for use.
Residual radioactivity is not long-lived.
Did anyone run a background check?
Is S/ really necessary today?
It appears the difference between a hydrogen bomb and a neutron bomb is that the uranium shield is not on the hydrogen bomb, making the same size bomb much more lethal to humans (but with the same impact to property), or allowing the bomb to be much smaller (even tactical), but having the same effect on humans but with a much smaller property damage effect.
Would this be correct?
The last one registered 5.1 and had an estimated yield of 8KT or so. If this was a hydrogen bomb it was a dud.
Thank you for the ping. This is a rather stunning development, I knew they would conduct a test at some point this year but I didn’t think it would be this fast.
Jeff, what’s your thoughts and analysis. On this interesting development, tonight and how do you think China, will react?
0bama will invite North Korea to test it over the U.S.
End Time Bible Prophecy Ping.
World War III/Kings of the East
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