Posted on 10/08/2006 9:07:09 PM PDT by struggle
Does anyone here think is is fishy that a claimed 400kt was a 5kt poof? Does anyone here think this is a conventional detonation of a few thousand tons in a shallow surface location to create the appearance of a nuke?
No nuclear signature, no leak. Is that suspicious? Is North Korea simply trying to save face and collect money?
No this was not a fake. As reported elsewhere, the bomb was provided through the office of karl rove (sshhh). He could ill afford a phoney explosion being exposed--so it was the real thing.
shooting across the DMZ violates the Armistice, as they did earlier in the week and on and off for years.
course, the armistice is with the UN...bout as good as flash paper.
Possible fizzle?
It was probably a very small nuke because they only have a limited supply of plutonium. They wouldn't want to use half of it up on one test.
I say we don't believe them and make them try again and use up the rest of their Pu.
It seems most are missing this most salient of points.
Truman should have let MacArthur finish the job.
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Iran will be watching how the world reacts to North Korea.
That's like 40-50 miles from the coast depending on which way you go.
Someone should have a closer look see.
Google Maps Satellite View
Just some data points for comparison:
The major conventional explosion on board the Russian submarine Kursk back in 2000 measured a 4.2 http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa012801a.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/01/010122094229.htm
Likewise, a 4.0 is about what the sonic boom from the Space Shuttle's re-entry makes: http://www.ig.utexas.edu/outreach/cataclysms/earthquakes/key/AnswerEq3.pdf
Here's a natural gas explosion seismogram for comparison: http://dutchman.nmt.edu/Geop/Pipeline/pipeline.html
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