i am not DUD!!!
Posted on 10/09/2006 4:05:08 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
North Korea sets off an earthshaking explosion _ and claims it was nuclear. Was it? For scientists, that was not a quick and easy question to answer.
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His agency estimated the North Korean blast at around 1 kiloton or less _ equivalent to the explosive force of 1,000 tons of TNT. For a nuclear device, that would be so weak that the French defense minister suggested that "there could have been a failure" with the North Korean reported test.
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I suspect that he detonated TNT instead of an a-bomb because he did not want to waste his precious uranium.
North Korea uses plutonium in their bombs.
As an earlier post reported, it was a Kimchi bomb.
Synchronized Farting Bomb (SFB).
...good! Keep saying that without knowing whether or not it's true. With terrorist regimes perceived as being no real threat, the Democrats will get back into office. Then, in a few short years, we can have the world war that I've been wanting to see--a real nuclear celebration!
His missiles were “duds”.
His nuclear bomb was (possibly) a “dud”.
His internal economic policies are “duds”.
His foreign policies are “duds”.
Perhaps “dear leader” the expounder of all things good, omnipotent co-founder of the universe, righteous leader of the oppressed and all around nice guy … is the quintessential “dud”.
I know, stating the obvious.
I am sure we all take the threat seriously, only our leadership is the weak willed, determined not to upset anyone. If it were up to me I'd use N. Korea as practice to get the message out to Iran. My son is in South Korea in the Army so it is tense over there now.
Couldn't be. You got'ta have food to produce an SFB!
My prayers for your son and your family. God Bless him.
susie
Thank you, I will probably talk to him tomorrow he has a habit of calling in the morning. This morning he asked me if I knew what was going on, said yep Mike keep safe,
Oh, I just read your page. Thank you for your sevice. I'm the daughter of an Air Force lifer and the daughter in law of a Marine pilot (vet of ww2 & Korea, I think he got out about the time Viet Nam started up, but my Dad was there).
Anyway, I'm always happy to meet a vet!
susie
Reference?
For the past few weeks, while the thinking classes were sweating over how to stop this (supposed) test, I've been thinking "Let's see what you've got."
Now DL has apparently set something off, and it wasn't much.
Oh sure, if it was next to my house it would ruin my day, but 2 airplanes brought down the World Trade Center. I think DL haas proved he doesn't have what it takes in front of the whole world. Unless this was one of those so-called maybe-they-exist suitcase bombs, it was probably the size of a boxcar. Sooo, IOW, a moving van packed with RDX would be more dangerous.
And don't say he was conserving his plutonium. Do it right or don't bother. But of course nothing else in N. Korea works right either...
What is really stupid is if this guy straightened up and flew right he could be making Buicks in a new factory in N Korea inside 6 months. people could be working and the lights would come on.
Could it have been a suitcase bomb or even a dirty bomb test?
U235 is used in the gun type (Little Boy)weapon which is a very simple device and can get a yield of many kt. But it takes U235 which is much harder to come by. Plutonium is much easier to acquire but it cannot be used in a gun type assembly because of pre-detonation from the impurity Pu240. If you tried plutonium in a gun type assembly intead of in a complicated implosion device, it is possible to get a fizzle yield on the order of what was actually detected. Maybe they don't have the technology to produce an implosion device such as Fat Man and settled for a fizzle yield using plutonium in a gun type assembly. Any thoughts?? Jess Marcel
His nuclear bomb was (possibly) a 'dud'.
His internal economic policies are 'duds'.
His foreign policies are 'duds'."
The only thing that didn't fail was his plan to trick Clinton into sending him aid for doing nothing (other than lying) You would have thought that was the one thing Bill understood.
i am not DUD!!!
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