Posted on 08/04/2017 9:36:51 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea could soon develop a hydrogen bomb more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan
By Harry J. Kazianis Published August 04, 2017 Fox News
A Defense Department official I spoke to recently on the condition of not revealing his name told me it now appears the North Koreans are working to finish development of an H-bomb, and that they could succeed in as soon as six to 18 months. Such a bomb would be many times more powerful than the atomic bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan that led to the end of World War II.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un claimed early last year to have tested an H-bomb, but most experts debunked such claims, arguing that the North had developed what is called a boosted fission weapon – or in layman’s terms, a more powerful atomic bomb. However, reports at the time coming out of South Korea claimed that North Korea was likely “one level away from a hydrogen bomb.”
If U.S. missile defenses failed to stop a North Korean H-bomb from landing in our nation’s capital it could kill roughly 500,000 people and injure another 900,000. If an H-bomb hit New York City, the death toll could reach over 1.7 million.
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...especially with the gifted technologies from Obama and his administration. North Korea, Pakistan and Iran are all colluding in the Death to America that Obama sponsored from the White House.
They haven’t developed these bombs and missiles, they’ve been supplied with them.
I don't think the little urchin is ready to give up his lifestyle.
We tracked down Osama and got him.
We tracked down Hussein and got him.
If we can capture those two we can capture him.
There would be no sale place to hide.
After the Norks use them and kill >3 million people maybe the government will do something, like they’re doing with the Muslim horde.
Hmmmm. Anyone remeber this other than Berlin FReeper?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29
Yeah and those Japanese would never attack Pearl Harbor and bring us into the ear either.
If we don’t stop NK and Iran soon we will see a nuclear holocaust here soon. Period.
I keep wondering whether folks expect the 1953 armistice to last forever, or for NK to wither away, or that we finish the job? Else, let NK keep developing weapons that might hurt us directly. Seems like we are past time to directly remove them from the equation... surgically remove their military, then let South reunify with the remnants. Surely, since we know there are supposedly 10K artillary facing south (fixed positions), we or South Korea have plans to neutralize them? That seems the primary threat, plus now the increased nuke and missile threat while we stand by doing nothing.
If NK dared attack the US, or US forces, in any manner, I’d like to think we’d unleash our faces on them and solve the problem. Let South Korea reunited with whatever is then left in the north.
The headline seems a bit silly and self evident.
Isn’t any H bomb more powerful than the relatively primitive bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Surely the line in the sand is something short of a nuke attack? We've waited too long if that is the line.
Gosh I sure hope Kim doesn’t blow up Washington DC with an H bomb.
of course, Clinton gave it to them and china developed it, now we are playing who is the puss and will cave to the master game , idiot humans play..
Today any formal declaration of war would require the US use thermonuclear weapons against the enemy. Limiting our weapons to anything less would be an act of treason by the President, Congress or any military person who ordered that.
Production of Lithium 6
Lithium 6 is a stable isotope that exists in nature. However, it has a relatively low natural abundance of 7.56 percent in natural lithium, for the bulk of lithium is lithium 7. For use in nuclear weapons or tritium production, the lithium 6 fraction must be typically increased to 40-95 percent of the lithium via a chemical enrichment process. If the lithium 6 is for tritium production in a reactor, the fraction of the lithium 6 in the targets placed in the reactor is limited to about 40 percent to prevent failure of the targets. For use in nuclear weapons, a 95 percent fraction of lithium 6 is desirable.Based on a 2012 procurement order, according to government sources, North Korea is assessed to have procured the wherewithal to build a lithium 6 enrichment plant based on mercury-based lithium exchange, shortened here to mercury exchange. This method of enrichment has been used by nuclear weapon states, including the United States. Almost all lithium 6 produced by the United States was enriched by the mercury-based column exchange process (COLEX) from 1954 to 1963.5 South Africa also built a pilot plant using this method to make lithium 6 for its nuclear weapons program in the 1970s.
The mercury exchange process involves an amalgam of lithium and mercury which is made via electrolysis. Subsequently, the mercury lithium amalgam is mixed with an aqueous lithium hydroxide (LiOH) solution. Lithium 6 has a slightly higher affinity to mercury than lithium 7, so lithium 7 diffuses out of the amalgam more quickly than lithium 6, leaving the amalgam with increased, or enriched, concentration of lithium 6. The lithium 6 can be separated from the amalgam. The tailings fraction of Lithium 7 is electrolyzed from the aqueous solution of lithium hydroxide. Afterwards, the lithium hydroxide can be reused.
What was procured? Most of the procurements were for industrial-scale equipment. Included in the order was metric tonne quantities of mercury and tens of kilograms of lithium hydroxide.
Given the procurement of these two materials and the replacement of mercury with less harmful metals in many industrial processes, the purchase of mercury in combination with lithium hydroxide is a strong indicator that North Korea is using the chemicals in a mercury-dependent lithium 6 production process.
The procurement evidence is reportedly contained in a 2012 North Korean contract to arrange the purchase of a wide range of industrial and lab-scale equipment and materials abroad in China. The purpose of the contract is not included but the list of goods, including the mercury and lithium hydroxide, implies they are for a lithium 6 enrichment plant using the mercury exchange method.
The most likely site for the lithium 6 plant is the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex near the city of Hamhung in North Korea. The procurement contract had handwritten notes stating that the goods were needed urgently and the procurements involved the Hungnam complex. The Hungnam complex makes sense for a lithium 6 production plant. This site is involved in ammonia processing and fertilizer production, and has electrolysis facilities.
I fear the situation is far, far worse than the government has been telling us.
Yep. 15 KT for Hiroshima and 21 KT (est) for Nagasaki.
On a side note, there were at least four Japanese people who got caught in both bombs. Which would have sucked.
Right. That'll work. That's some serious out-of-the-box thinking.
Too far away.
However CA, OR and WA are the easiest for them to hit.
As well as Hawaii.
Anything good going on in those states?
Was it the Clintons that gave them the initial information to start them on this road to our destruction?
Too bad our corrupt press won’t look into it...
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