This is a portable Nuke, the Davy Crockett
We made a couple thousand of these in the 50's.
If they test a weapon it will be a low altitude air burst as this type of explosion give the widest area of destruction. This type of explosion does not spread a lot of radioactivity over a wide area. A ground level burst spreads huge amounts of radiation over a large area. It has to do with irradiating the ground and blasting it up in the air to fallout on the ground downwind.
It should be noted that North Korea went from 10 to 25 kiloton weapons to a 250 kiloton hydrogen bomb in just a few short years. This weapon was not of their design. You do not progress that fast in nuclear weapons. This was either a Chinese design or a Chinese design via Pakistan. The Chinese stole the designs of our weapons years ago. Click the link below from the NY Times. Oddly it is accurate.
The weapon was our W-88, an advanced miniaturized thermonuclear weapon.
This is very serious to say the least. North Korea is partners with the insane mad Mullahs of Iran. One must assume Iran also has the designs. They have oil and money and North Korea needs both. They will make a deal. 300 billion dollars of impounded funds of Iran were released to Iran by Obama the traitor. 300 billion will buy a lot of W-88s.
This is the legacy of Clinton and Obama and to a lesser extent both Bushes.
Forgot to add an observation about North Korea’s ability to cause mass devastation to Seoul in South Korea. This is real and they can do it via their massive artillery on the border. This threat in the event of hostilities in the past could have been eliminated with the Neutron Bomb.
These are air burst weapons with little physical destructive power but insane amounts of neutrons that kill the combatants quickly. It must be noted it is a most gruesome death but war is gruesome. These weapons also have minimal fallout to effect South Korea. These weapons will also penetrate many inches of armor and many many feet of earth. Neutrons are neutral and just keep on going unless they hit the nucleus of an atom and at that time give off more killing x-rays and gamma.
A few hundred of these would wipe out North Korea’s ability to target South Korea with Artillery. Jimmy Carter, the stupid one, killed this program. We have the designs and know how to make them. We should make them.
If hostilities every broke out we would need to take out North Korea’s potential nuclear arsenal. This would require conventional nuclear weapons as you must be sure you get them all.
If one is ready to “Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War” you may not need to go to war.
I hope that not one artillery shell or bomb from North Korea or South Korea lands on either nation. If this does happen it is my hope that most the bombs and artillery is ours landing on North Korea.
We made a couple thousand of these in the 50's.
The Chinese didn’t just steal the warhead design, but also got the neutron bomb designs - under Bill Clinton/Sandy Burger, aka the burglar; Clinton who was at the same time selling them every top secret mil item he could lay his hands on for campaign cash. An obvious ‘coincidence,’ right?
So don’t blame the Chinese, blame the Clintons for their greed, lawlessness, and stupid Third Way philosophy (if every one has the same weapons, no one will use them - a subset of ‘modern’ communist thinking propounded by their mentors).