Besides the blast only measuring 2.6 on the Richter Scale, we can pretty well conclude that even the nutty NK wouldn't detonate a test nuke in that populated area.
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Posted on 09/14/2004 11:55:41 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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Those dark spots look more like cloud shadows than blast areas. But who knows...
Besides the blast only measuring 2.6 on the Richter Scale, we can pretty well conclude that even the nutty NK wouldn't detonate a test nuke in that populated area.
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"we can pretty well conclude that even the nutty NK wouldn't detonate a test nuke in that populated area."
I dunno about that!!!!!
The hill in the bowl like valley, the ridge leading to it, and the road on the ridge seem to be missing.
I think they blew sumthin' up by accident...again.
I don't even know what to think
Well, the area'a pretty developed, and I see no evidence of topographical change. My best guess is a test of the mother of all fuel/air bombs. Or an accidental detonation of something similar. Technicians should heed the 'no smoking' signs.
Where's Waldo?
Someone talk to me like I'm five years old and explain what these pictures show. All I can see is a big black cloud on the second picture on the right side. Is there a big hole somewhere? Wasn't the NK explanation that they were removing a mountain for a hydroelectric project?
Theres gotta be a better satelite picture then this somewhere. You can't see much on these.
I gots a quession!
If Kim is making some MAJOR hydro electric plant, why does he need nuclear power? The country as poor as it is can not use that much electricity.
All this is pure speculation on my part. But I think is has some merit.
He doesn't actually need a nuclear power plant. But Dick Cheney and Haliburton secretly contacted him in the 90's, telling him that in 2004 the Republicans would need a diversion in the election. Kim, sensing a set up, agreed to the sinister plot. However, he also recorded his suspicions on a secret "memo to self"....
No one has stated this here or in the media....
I believe that the TNT set off (estimated to be 1000 tons of TNT) for the same reason that the US set off 1000 tons of TNT prior to the detonation of our first A-bomb: We needed a metric for the size of our atomic blast.
That's were we get the terms 'mega-ton' or the equal of 1000 tons of TNT.
I guess you have to be a CIA agent to think this is anything other than a bunch of meaningless pictures.
Sounds good. Is there something about the signature of 1000 tons in NK that is different than the rest of the world that other scientists' numbers wouldn't work? What is being measured that they would have to do this themselves?
Fuel/air bombs are detonated in the atmosphere. And we got some bigguns that have compared to small tactical nukes, blowup-wise.
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