To: Ragnar Danneskjold
FOXNEWS per Bush admin official - NKoreans may not have gotten what they wanted (under 400kt level)
302 posted on
10/08/2006 8:58:12 PM PDT by
rjp2005
(Lord have mercy on us)
To: rjp2005
400kt is very, very high for a first generation nuclear device.
Short of a bomb similar to our now long retired Mark-18 weapon or else a thermonuclear weapon.
If they were trying to fire off a thermonuclear device, then what probably happened was only the primary fired but the secondary stage was a fizzle.
314 posted on
10/08/2006 9:01:42 PM PDT by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: rjp2005
400kt is ridiculous for a first test. I highly doubt the Koreans were expecting that size explosion, which would be one of the largest fission explosions of all time. I think FOX might have their story wrong on that point.
Unless of course they were attempting a fusion boost, which is also somewhat strange for a first test.
325 posted on
10/08/2006 9:04:28 PM PDT by
Phocion
("Protection" really means exploiting the consumer. - Milton Friedman)
To: rjp2005
FOXNEWS per Bush admin official - NKoreans may not have gotten what they wanted (under 400kt level)
Based on info
here, and knowing that the Richter scale is exponential, the size seems very low, like < 10 Ktons.
Caveat: Depth, rock make-up, etc can certainly make all of my assumptions absolutely incorrect.
330 posted on
10/08/2006 9:06:13 PM PDT by
Deek
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