Posted on 10/10/2006 3:37:05 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
``It's for self-defence: the United States wants regime change,'' the source, who requested anonymity, said in Beijing, noting that Mr Bush had labelled North Korea part of an ``axis of evil'' along with Iran and Iraq in 2002.
There was no independent confirmation that the device was a neutron bomb, designed to release larger amounts of deadly radiation than other nuclear weapons while leaving infrastructure intact.
I am not an expert, but I suspect that N. Koreans are bent on conning their way out of fizzled nuke at the test.
So they blew this one as well as their last long-range missile launch?
Ping!
Meanwhile, Fox is reporting that the Japanese and others are still ooking for traces of radioation, and so far nothing has shown up.
What does it really matter that North Korea test detonated a micro size nuke underground? WHOOPY... In other news... Somewhere in the remotest parts of Africa, an elephant also farted. What am I missing here?
Maybe that's because they just lit a big pile of fireworks from China.
Ingenious. Your nuke test doesn't work, so tell them it was a neutron bomb.
This is turning into a con-game. Not good for Kim Jong-il's ego, but could make talking heads busy with their lips.
Lately, Kim Jong-il has become a dud-maker.:)
The time to ook (ok, to look) for them would be when it happened. We have radioastronomers looking at stuff billions of miles away, why wouldn't this show up on their instruments too.
The W54 warhead used on the Davy Crockett weighed just 51 pounds and was the smallest and lightest fission bomb (implosion type) ever deployed by the United States, with a variable explosive yield of 0.01 kilotons (equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, or two to four times as powerful as the ammonium nitrate bomb which destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995), or 0.02 kilotons-1 kiloton. A 58.6 pound variant the B54 was used in the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), a nuclear land mine deployed in Europe, South Korea, Guam, and the United States from 1964-1989.
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micro nukes & delivery system, forty year old technology.
The XM-388 casing (including the warhead and fin assembly) weighed 76 pounds, was 30 inches long and measured 11 inches in diameter (at its widest point).
The theory that the NKers merely set off 500 tonnes of conventional explosive is looking better and better ...
I think it's a cry for help. Their missle test was designed to fail, and their nuclear test was fake.
To get help, first they have to surrender unconditionally.:)
That whole "kills people while leaving buildings intact" line is a load of crap. A neutron weapon is still a nuclear bomb, complete with the attendant fireball and blast effects. It is just a much dirtier version of a standard nuclear weapon.
Yeah well Il is about as close to respectable as Clinton.
The trouble is that he wants the respect as another major power with large nuclear arsenal.
Ready for it, Mr. Richardson?
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