North Korea - - with their massive underground nuclear test facilities - - got a message: The United States has more air blast bombs... and we’re willing to drop ‘em...
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How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans
by AMBASSADOR R. JAMES WOOLSEY, DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
March 31, 2017
The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons. False reassurance is given to the American people that North Korea has not “demonstrated” that it can miniaturize a nuclear warhead small enough for missile delivery, or build a reentry vehicle for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of penetrating the atmosphere to blast a U.S. city.
Yet any nation that has built nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, as North Korea has done, can easily overcome the relatively much simpler technological challenge of warhead miniaturization and reentry vehicle design.
Indeed, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been photographed posing with what appears to be a genuine miniaturized nuclear warhead for ballistic missiles. And North Korea does, in fact, have two classes of ICBMs-the road mobile KN-08 and KN-14-which both appear to be equipped with sophisticated reentry vehicles.
Even if it were true that North Korea does not yet have nuclear missiles, their “Dear Leader” could deliver an atomic bomb hidden on a freighter sailing under a false flag into a U.S. port, or hire their terrorist allies to fly a nuclear 9/11 suicide mission across the unprotected border with Mexico. In this scenario, populous port cities like New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, or big cities nearest the Mexican border, like San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, and Santa Fe, would be most at risk.
A Hiroshima-type A-Bomb having a yield of 10-kilotons detonated in a major city would cause about 200,000 casualties from blast, thermal, and radiation effects. North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon having an estimated yield of 20-30 kilotons. The Defense Department assesses that on January 6, 2016, North Korea may have tested components of an H-Bomb. H-Bombs are much more powerful than A-Bombs and can produce much greater casualties-millions of casualties in a big city like New York.
The notion that North Korea is testing A-Bombs and H-Bomb components, but does not yet have the sophistication to miniaturize warheads and make reentry vehicles for missile delivery is absurd.
This brought to mind an old movie MIRAGE (1965) in which Gregory Peck developes amnesia as people associated with him are assassinated.
Cut to the chase....The reason is he has been working on an atomic style bomb that did not release radiation.
I think we have it.
What is absurd is everyone's preoccupation with ICBMs & re-entry vehicles. All the NORKs have to do is put the bomb in a yacht and cruise into a marina in DC, NYC Chicago, Seattle, Miami, San Fran, Minneapolis, etc.
Somali pirates have the 'sophistication' to accomplish that.
It’s not adding up to 90%.