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To: 1curiousmind
"The detected explosion likely was produced by the conventional high-explosives used to split the plutonium atoms and produce a nuclear explosion, one official said.

Yup.

13 posted on 10/13/2006 8:35:06 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (When Bubba lies, the finger flies!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

So he wrapped 200 tons of HE around a softball size sphere of plutonium in an attempt to detonate it? Think about that for a minute. This was a fizzle of a plutonium core. It worked, some. There was a reaction releasing alot of energy, but it didn't go boom. It fizzled. Sooner or later they will get one to go boom. Then what? Probably already has the necessary deuterium and a schematic (Soviet) to put it together. Enter the NK hydrogen bomb, just $200,000,000 asking price.


17 posted on 10/13/2006 8:43:24 AM PDT by east1234 (It's the borders stupid. It's also WWIV.)
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