Posted on 01/28/2016 1:32:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
The U.S. now believes North Korea might have attempted to test components of a hydrogen bomb on January 6, after further review and analysis of the latest intelligence information.
A U.S. official directly familiar with the latest U.S. assessment said there may have been a partial, failed test of some type of components associated with a hydrogen bomb.
The assessment comes after careful examination of the latest intelligence analysis of the test data. But the official emphasized there is no final conclusion.
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That analysis shows the test was conducted more than two times deeper underground than originally assessed -- at a depth consistent with what might be needed for a hydrogen bomb.
However, the size of the seismic event and other intelligence indicates it was not likely a fully functioning device. The official said it's possible the North Koreans believe they conducted a full hydrogen bomb test, but the U.S. believes it was likely only some components, perhaps a detonator, that exploded.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
N. Korea says its H-bomb ‘capable of wiping out whole US at once’
13 Jan, 2016 08:41
https://www.rt.com/news/328724-north-korea-bomb-us/
With one bomb?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have a hole in our south-facing radar?
Obama is not going to let a new POTUS be inaugurated. If it’s Trump he will expose the coup of 2008, and Obama’s owners can’t allow that. Obama will be in the southern hemisphere in November and December, and it’s looking like Iran and North Korea are on-schedule to be able to do the EMP attack that can start the Armageddon that Iran has promised - with the terror sleeper cells here in place to finish us off, just as Obama held the door open to them so they could do...
This needs to be the top priority for Trump and Cruz: we NEED to move our portable radar system into place to fill that hole in our radar defense. NOW!
ISIS is running all over Libya and North Africa
Ash Carter got call off a trip immediately to go to the White House over ISIS's moves.
Ping
I can make an unsuccessful hydrogen bomb. I have several in my desk drawer....
Mostly a hydrogen bomb uses an atomic bomb as a trigger, lithium as an accelerator/catalyst and deuterium as the fuel. The deuterium is the hard part.
Ever bit of Obama’s Iran deal was focused almost solely on Iran's uranium enrichment program which is not critical for a hydrogen bomb, while allowing Iran free access to the worlds dual use nuclear technology that is useful for development and production of hydrogen bombs.
Iran is North Korea's nuclear proliferation partner so if the North Koreans have a hydrogen bomb then so does Iran,
Obama gave Iran 150 Billion dollars to develop weapons, listed international economic and nuclear technology sanctions and embargos on Iran, agreed to use American Military to protect Iran's nuclear facilities from attack and explicitly agreed to provide Iran with with nuclear technology and know how that could be used by Iran and North Korea to refine their HYDROGEN Bomb technology which essentially makes their uranium bomb technology obsolete all in return for restrictions on Iran's ability to the produced highly enriched weapons grade uranium need to make a uranium fission bomb.
Obama and Kerry did explicitly agree to allow Iran to produce the kind of lower level enriched uranium needed to make plutonium for the production of a hydrogen bomb.
Obama and Kerry also explicitly agreed to allow Iran complete freedom to lift sanctions and embargoes on Iran's ability develop or freely purchase on the world market ballistic missile technology and even complete ballistic missiles from any country willing to sell i to them.
Obama said did not care if Iran had ballistic missiles because his historic Iran Nuclear Deal would prevent Iran from getting uranium to make uranium bombs to load on the missies.
Obama was 100% correct on this. There is no way in hell Iran would ever put a uranium bomb on ballistic missile when they could put a Hydrogen Bomb on instead.
My big concern on Obama’s Iran deal was that it seemed to completely ignore Iran's ability to build or field a hydrogen bomb and even facilitated Iran's development of a Hydrogen bomb.
Now Iran has working Hydrogen Bomb technology, 150 Billion to develop or buy a bomb, express permission buy pretty much any nuclear technology used for Hydrogen bombs but not related to uranium enrichment or production of uranium bombs and full freedom to develop or buy ballistic missile technology and parts of the world market
Obama gave all that to ran in return for nothing, not even Iran's promise to stop threatening to destroy America
Funny.
Quite possible. As I recall from college physics, the energy required to initiate fusion in a thermonuclear device is generally through the use of a fission “bomb.”
That would explain the “smallish” explosion detected.
Mark
Nothing to see here, move along. After all, ISIS is the "JV" team, and they're no "existential threat" to the United States.
Barky promised that we have nothing to worry about.
Mark
I saw a special on that bomb. It said the scientist made it a little smaller than was originally intended. I forget if it was because he figured that the effect of making it larger would be minimal or that would be too dangerous. Everybody thanks for all the great answers. If the explosive power of a hydrogen bomb is theoretically infinite then a planet killer could be made no?
According to who?
Some blog?
The experts have been saying this since the mid-70’s. The reason to not do anything about it was always that our enemies either didn’t have a nuke to use or didn’t have a way to deliver it vie the southern hemisphere. Both of those things have changed under Obama. We did have balloons that were monitoring the skies to the south but Obama got rid of that because its primary purpose was to stop illegals and drug smuggling, and we know he considers it unconstitutional to actually have a border. At least that’s the fig-leaf answer for why he’s leaving the southern skies wide open, with no eyes watching there. Fact is, he’s done everything necessary to make sure our enemies have exactly what they need - right when they need it (at the end of his last term so there can be a catastrophic event preventing any new POTUS from being inaugurated and extending his time as CINC to the “8-10 years” he told us he’d be POTUS in July of 2008.
I posted a thread that had a bunch of links for sources but just googling could give you a bunch more.
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