[Ancesthntr]

“Yield on Starfish Prime was I think 1.4MT detonated at 400 miles.
The warhead itself was probably a two stage thermonuclear weighing around 10klbs.

Way beyond NK technology”

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The EMP from Starfish Prime was not expected. So we have a 1.4 megaton nuke, the percentage of which yield was from fission I don’t know, and which WASN’T “tuned” to put more of its energy into gamma rays than explosive force and heat.

I wouldn’t be lulled into a false sense of security by those facts.

Also, WRT Nork technology, this article http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/04/could_north_korea_destroy_the_us.html indicates that they may well have the benefit of Soviet-developed designs for EMP-enhanced warheads.

Again, I’m not getting a big dose of the warm and fuzzies from these facts. Underestimating enemies from either arrogance or intellectual laziness is a foolish luxury, and if you have determined enemies and just enough bad luck, that can really ruin your day. Ask the Romans about the capabilities of the barbarians, or the French about how the “best army in the world, bar none” held off those naughty Germans in 1940.

[txhurl]

Remember that map Kim made of the cities he was gonna nuke.. pressure points of the grid? Are the devices here already?