Nuclear weapons: Who has what?

BBC ^ | 11 February, 2005

[GnL]

I've got one. Pretty big, too.

[muawiyah]

Building a nuclear weapon is one thing. Building a working trigger for it is quite another.

For all anybody knows Korea has nothing more than leftovers from the WWII Japanese atom bomb project that took place mostly in Korea.

Although they were building gigantic aircraft carrying submarines as well as jet planes to mount a direct invasion on the American mainland, they didn't succeed in building a working trigger.

That part of their program blew up at Harbin about a month before our first successful test at Alamagordo, NM.

No trigger means no bomb, and our guys are acting like they know exactly what Korea has and can't set off.

[Spruce]

How about a chart showing overall "explosive yield". I would bet many of the warheads posessed by US and Russia are pretty 'small'.

[Decombobulator]

How to build a nuke from smoke detectors

[zencat]

One USN Ohio class sub has 24 Trident D-5 missiles each with 5 W88 475Kt MIRV warheads. Next to the US and Russia as a whole, that's more accurate and destructive power the any of the other nuclear nations listed.

We have 14 of them.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

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[Bald Eagle777]

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[Bald Eagle777]

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[RussianDude]

Of course North Korea has the same color on this map as Israel

[zencat]

Exactly. Not something that can be assembled in a basement or cave.

[thoughtomator]

Lots of countries not labeled "potential nuclear power" which could be at the drop of a hat, if they wanted to... most notably Japan. But really, what could stop, say, Norway from going nuclear?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Official response as taught byt he Navy: I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons aboard my ship/duty station.

[TXnMA]

Whoa! Those "Missile History" websites are something to behold!

[SuperLuminal]

"I've got one. Pretty big, too.

Me too!....but, at 70 years-of-age, half-life deterioration has taken it's toll.

[Strategerist]

Not much really, but they would have to violate the NPT treatey; helps to have an already established nuke power industry, though.

Taiwan, South Korea, etc.....these countries could have nukes at a drop of the hat.

[freebilly]

LOL! That's got to be one of the best articles I've ever read. My ten year old just read it to. He's going to the dump tomorrow....

[Cronos]

For all anybody knows Korea has nothing more than leftovers from the WWII Japanese atom bomb project that took place mostly in Korea.

Actually they have Chinese made nukes (via PAKISTAN) -- they got them from the Pakis in exchange for missile technology -- the Paks have Chinese nukes on North Korean missiles (they just repaint them and give them Islammic names)

[sukhoi-30mki]

Make that 14 Ohios minus 4 as the first four subs are being converted to carry out Tomahawk strikes & covert missions(SSGN conversion).