Posted on 09/26/2015 9:33:17 AM PDT by SandRat
Pyongyang says it has developed miniaturized nuclear BBs making it possible to fit them into standard BB and Air-soft projectors. The report comes just days after North Korea claimed a joint venture with Lucas Films to build a golf-ball-sized Death Star.
“It has been a long time since we began miniaturizing and diversifying our means of nuclear strike,”North Korea’s National Autocratic Defense Commission said in a statement, as cited by the official Korean Nuclear Agency (KNA).
"We have also reached the stage where the highest accuracy rate is guaranteed not only for short- and medium-range BBs such as 10 yards and 30 yards, but long-range BBs capable of going as far as 100 yards.”
South Korean intelligence believes Pyongyang initiated development of the new strategic ballistic BBs in 2010.
On May 9, Pyongyang announced a successful test firing of an Air soft-launched ballistic BB (ALBBB) – a game-changing “close range-level strategic weapon,” according to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, “which explodes like a M67 hand grenade, but with out the deadly shrapnel.”
Meanwhile, US Admiral James Winkled claimed Tuesday that North Korean specialists doctored the images and in fact are "many years" from developing Air soft-launched ballistic BBs. "They have not gotten as far as their clever video editors and Seth Rogan would have us believe," Reuters reported Winkled, vice chairman of the Chairman, as saying.
The commander of US forces on the Korean peninsula, General Curtis Scaparrotti, said in October 2014 that though it was difficult to verify what Pyongyang actually possesses in its atomic arsenal, he believed that North Korea had “the capability to miniaturize a device at this point and they have the technology to actually deliver what they say they have,” AFP reported.
There has so far been no credible report about North Korea publicly testing a miniature nuclear device, though rumor has it that the nuclear BBs were used by Un to murder his grandmother because she once frowned at him when he was a baby.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said this week that North Korea “continues to pursue micro-nuclear weapons and ballistic BBs” and warned that Washington is considering implementing new sanctions against Kim Jong-un’s regime, such as banning American basketball players from entering North Korea.
I wonder if this would work for real? Not in terms of tiny explosions, but radiation poisoning.
A Test on ISIS would work well.
it has that Kim Jong Un Hinged vibe alright!
Freegards
Radioactive BBs could cause significant radiation poisoning.
Delivered on the tip of an umbrella ... sound familiar?
When I have a fire-ant hill in my yard, I kill them; I don’t try to understand them or value their diversity.
Yes. I use radioactive radiation sources about that size in my radiography process (behind lead screens, of course)that could be used for weaponizing.
Have a good laugh
Radiation poisoning for sure.
As far as mini nukes are concerned, you need enough mass to reach critical mass to cause the atomic chain reaction.
Frankly I’m not sure what they’re trying to say here. Producing small radioactive pellets isn’t exactly a technological breakthrough.
IBPCYN In before people call you names for not using the satire heading. But it is still funny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
in the 1950’s we produced nukes that weighed 50 pounds. In the 60 softball size ones. .....Today? Half a century later?
....don’t even want to imagine.
Supposedly the KGB used to use Plutonium pellets (shot out of umbrella guns and other such curiosities) to assassinate defectors.
Decades later, in losing the Falkland war, Argentina's best weapon proved to be a French missile. There was sign of that impressive nuclear breakthrough.
Drones with suped up airsoft guns loaded with plutonium BB’s could definitely wreak havoc. Buzz Disneyland or WDW, a major NASCAR race, New Years events, etc.
Muslims and drones with cheap Walmart digital alarm clocks is my worry, suicide drones with incendiary sticks, Japan had balloons in WW2 that were launched across the Pacific, one killed two people in the Pacific Northwest years later.
nasty letter to follow?
You’ll shoot your eye out.
The French Exocet missile which set the HMS Sheffield ablaze & ultimately sank it, didn’t even explode.
Anyway, the little Nork riceball is not so little these days, now tipping the scales at 286 lb (130 kg), a little much for someone 5’ 2’ in height. He could be even more dangerous.
Atomic AirSoft? I am skeptical.
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