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Is This North Korea's Nuclear Bomb?
Foxtrot Alpha ^ | 03/09/16 1245pm | Tyler Rogoway

Posted on 03/09/2016 11:30:26 AM PST by PIF

... But now, after saying that they are deploying their nuclear warheads for quick use, and posting the image above, it may be time to reevaluate the North Koreans nuclear capabilities.

That big metallic soccer ball of doom that you see in front of the “Young General” appears to be a compact nuclear implosion device, which is a more complicated alternative than the much more cumbersome gun assembly style nuclear devices, and larger implosion devices, that were thought to have been the limit of North Korea’s technical know-how.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bomb; dprk; northkorea; nuclearweapon
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1 posted on 03/09/2016 11:30:26 AM PST by PIF
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To: PIF

Na.....the Norks just discovered Disco


2 posted on 03/09/2016 11:34:13 AM PST by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: PIF

Fuse is too short.


3 posted on 03/09/2016 11:35:04 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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4 posted on 03/09/2016 11:36:39 AM PST by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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To: PIF

One of these countries, NK or Iran, is going to nuke somebody. And of course in America republicans will be blamed. Iran is testing the missiles that will deliver the nuke.


5 posted on 03/09/2016 11:37:08 AM PST by Williams (Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
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To: spokeshave

Ah, so he’s the surprise contestant on Dancing With The Stars this new season!..........................................


6 posted on 03/09/2016 11:37:23 AM PST by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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7 posted on 03/09/2016 11:38:27 AM PST by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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To: Williams

NK is making the warheads ...


8 posted on 03/09/2016 11:38:51 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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9 posted on 03/09/2016 11:39:09 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: spokeshave

Reactor grade Pu239 with too much Pu240.
Pre-detonated which explains the low yield.
Box hanging off the side is probably Tritium injection unit.


10 posted on 03/09/2016 11:40:01 AM PST by Zathras
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To: PIF
So, you're saying we sneak it on to the Rockefeller Christmas Tree?


11 posted on 03/09/2016 11:42:26 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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So the Norks violate UN sanctions, tests longer and longer range missiles, explodes nuclear devices, shows alledged nuclear devices, puts nuclear forces on alert, threatens DC with a preemptive nuke strike, and obammy goes to the golf course and the hipster conference.


12 posted on 03/09/2016 11:42:42 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: PIF

This is why we’ve been launching Trident SLBM’s and Minutemans.


13 posted on 03/09/2016 11:44:53 AM PST by JPX2011
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To: PIF

It looks like the bomb from the Japanese movie “The Man Who Stole the Sun.”


14 posted on 03/09/2016 11:47:22 AM PST by struggle
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To: PIF
I wonder if those are merely explosive charges surrounding the plutonium sphere (if it's even plutonium, or a sphere for that matter).

The boffins at Alamogordo realized pretty early on that it wasn't just a matter of blasting the sphere in on itself. That the blast had to be precisely directed. And so they came upon a solution: convective "lenses" which focused the blasts toward the exact center of the target.

Gotta ask if the Norks have figured that out yet.

15 posted on 03/09/2016 11:48:48 AM PST by Samwell Tarly
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Capt, Sum Ting Wong
Capt. Wi Too Lo
Co-pilot Ho Lee Fuk
Nagigator Bang Ding Ow


16 posted on 03/09/2016 11:52:08 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: YouPosting2Me

Other caption: “If we tee it up you really think Obama will swing at it?”


17 posted on 03/09/2016 11:53:25 AM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Samwell Tarly

Did you read the article? Most people who know think it is the real deal. And that their last test was a sort of supped up fission explosion but far short of fusion.

“It is possible, however that they tested a so called “boosted fission device,” which compresses tritium and deuterium gas during detonation. This enhances the yield considerably of a fission weapon, but it does not come anywhere close to the potential output of a true fusion weapon, also known as a hydrogen bomb.”

Never sell your enemy short, particularly when he is neglecting to fed his people to make weapons ,,,


18 posted on 03/09/2016 11:55:00 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Samwell Tarly

I’m sure if they can read your post, they know now.


19 posted on 03/09/2016 11:55:35 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Williams
One of these countries, NK or Iran, is going to nuke somebody. And of course in America republicans will be blamed. Iran is testing the missiles that will deliver the nuke.

I follow the Curtis LeMay school of nuclear deterrence. We never should have allowed any other country to produce nuclear weapons.

Having failed to stop Russia and China, we should have made doubly certain that no Islamic or Kook country ever get their hands on them. We should have smashed the Iranian revolution in 1979, but we had President P*SSY back then.

We should have told North Korea, "Try it, and we will waste you."

If this proceeds as all signs indicate, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama will go down as the bloodiest fools in world history.

The Carter presidency has already cost the lives of a Million Human beings, and I shall not be surprised that Clinton and Obama's death toll will be magnitudes higher.

20 posted on 03/09/2016 11:57:30 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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