If the bombs were planted at the bottom of vertically drilled tunnels, the explosion would do less damage, he said.
However, such a scenario is unlikely, due to the fact that such tunnels are expensive and difficult to build. It's much easier, Wang said, to build a horizontal tunnel into the heart of the mountain - which increases the risk of "taking the roof off" the mountain.
Would not surprised mw.
The world has survived 520 above-ground nuclear blasts and another 800 underground tests in the last 70 years. The most lethal radioactives go inert the fastest. If/when the roof caves in on the North Korean mountain, only a few dribbles will escape, and the prevailing winds will probably take those dribbles out to sea. You’ll get more extra radiation by going to Denver for a day.
What would be even better would be the next DPRK missile test going off course, self-destructing, with the bits raining down on Northeast China.
That might help clarify China’s position somewhat.
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Seems to me that a big red “X” should now be on this mountain as a potential prime target for US bombers and or missiles. Spread the love!!!
Hey China, save face, Nuke Kim and tell the world be blew himself up, we will go along with it.
Sickly, better them than us, serious.
Can’t Kim Fat Ass just wave his magical, god-like weener and make the radiation go away? Shoo-shoo radiation. You go now. I understand they say crops bloom if he just walks thru a field.
Actually, I’m surprised that all of the NK nuke tests have been underground. One would think that Fat Boy, with his penchant for bluster, would light one off at the surface just so the world could see the mushroom cloud.