Posted on 09/02/2017 6:48:16 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Don’t think I agree. Took the U.S. 7 years after Fat Man to develop a true H-bomb employing Teller-Ulam configuration.
What N. Korea is almost certainly talking about is a fusion-boosted weapon in which tritium is injected onto the pit immediately before implosion. The result is a small amount of fusion. But the main purpose is to increase the neutron flux to improve fission efficiency of the primary. The vast majority of the weapon yield is still due to fission not fusion. In contrast, for a two-stage Teller-Ulam bomb, roughly 90% of energy is due to fusion of secondary.
Paging Bubba Clinton and Madelyn Albright.
Who is to say the cans are not empty? I see nothing nuclear.
Looks like they raided Kim’s palace kitchen and bolted a bunch of mixing bowls together
Once they knew in could be done, the Soviets, Brits, Chinese took only 3-5 years to go from fission to two stage fusion. The French took 8, but for the first 4 they were on the totally wrong track.
Admittedly the Indians took 24 years, and the Pakistanis are taking a similar time - But Kim should be able to beat that.
Probably full of kimchee.
It makes two huge eggrolls at a time.
Right now I have an upset stomach, possibly a stomach virus. I’ll match my gas against your bomb any day, fatboy.
Bush had almost 8 years to take the mentally ILL KIMS out but didn’t. Obama had almost 8 years to take them out but did nothing.
No it may be too late. Procrastination in the face of an insane and aggressive enemy is a sure death sentence for the future generations.
I just got a news flash that there has been an earthquake in North Korea which is, of course, suspected of being another nuke test. Fat Boy is hyper and rushing things again. He loves to poke us with a stick and is building his nuclear insurance policy.
That’s the bomb from Goldfinger.
Anything to bring the US down a peg or two was just fine with him.
Did he not famously say we could absorb a nuke hit or two?
Remember that we had to discover that design principle. The Norkies can read about it on the Internet.
I think Mr. Kim disproved those theories overnight!
He has done everything he said he was going to do, and he has said we will use his (proven) missiles with his (now proven) fusion warheads to destroy the US.
He kills relatives by shooting anti-aircraft guns and mortars at them. He also loves to turn starving dogs loose on them.
Why would we expect him to stop now?
A 6.3 surface seismic event in NK today is indicative of a thermonuclear weapon
What are you telling me for?
I read your reply of “I see nothing nuclear.” as you don’t think they have the capability being discussed. The evidence as of this morning suggests our worst nightmare.
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