Posted on 08/04/2017 9:36:51 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Faux News falls for the McCain trap.
A simple Tritium boosted implosion device is not a real “H-bomb”
Yield doubles which considering NK’s previous detonations is probably in the 30kT for their boosted device.
The term “H-Bomb” is somewhat misleading. It stems from the first “R&D” development of fusion style weapons. In the first test of an H-Bomb (I believe at the Castle series of tests). They used liquid hydrogen in a test cell. It was never really a practical weapon, just designed to test out the theories of nuclear fusion. The practical fusion weapons use lithium hydride.
The are correctly called fusion weapons, or more accurately, “thermonuclear weapons”. They use a staged series of fission-fusion-fission etc. to maximize the explosive energy.
In reality, the fission(A bomb) part of the thermonuclear weapon, is the fuse.
Exactly. It may be that a military operation now would potentially cause the deaths of a million people, but if we wait 5 years, he may have the power to kill 100 million or more.
China?
Many, many times more powerful.
Wouldn’t Los Angeles and San Francisco be in more danger from a NorK nuke than New York and DC?
Kim Jung Un suffers from the Hitler Syndrome — he cares not what will happen to NoKo in a war with the US.
Europe is going muslim. They will have nuke arsenals/assets at their disposal.
Japan thought we’d not want to fight. Urchin may have the same thoughts. I hope we don’t have to find out the hard way.
retarded headline alert
I read the efficiency of Little Boy was just 1.4%, while that of Fat Man was 17%.
You are a fountain of WMD trivia, Bill. :-)
Yeah, that *would* have sucked. Imagine the level of bad luck involved in that happenstance, as viewed though the lens of history. Staggering.
Throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had been developing missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads. During this period, the US considered the defense of the US as part of reducing the overall damage inflicted in a full nuclear exchange. As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command (now called North American Aerospace Defense Command).
By the early 1950s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of an operational ABM system. Work started on a short-range, high-speed counterpart known as Sprint to provide defense for the ABM sites themselves. By the mid-1960s, both systems showed enough promise to start development of base selection for a limited ABM system dubbed Sentinel. In 1967, the US announced that Sentinel itself would be scaled down to the smaller and less expensive Safeguard. Soviet doctrine called for development of its own ABM system and return to strategic parity with the US. This was achieved with the operational deployment of the A-35 ABM system and its successors, which remain operational to this day.
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