If we let this slide, we will have the third and the fourth.... Eventually followed by ones from S. Korea and Japan.
Ping!
Should we be surprised that someone from Yale thought it was “too small”?
We should drop in a nuke bunker-buster and show them what a big boom feels like.
Too small.. well I gues we have nothing to worry about. Good thing Obama will make all things right, or we’d still have major cause of concern.
Sure!
not
gee, what yield do they need to take out Seoul?
Using what he called standard conversions, Park, a geologist, said North Korea appears to have produced a force of 4 kilotons or less through the test that took place in the northeastern region.
It all depends on how much fuel they used and what the target blast size was, all things this guy doesn't know.
Perhaps they made a bigger blast than planned, using only a small amount of fuel for testing a 3 KT miniaturized weapon and achieved greater efficiency than expected.
I doubt they are gong to supply the world with the data, so we can only speculate. I'd expect the worst.
Making old fat boy type nukes doesn't make much sense and is a big waste of their limited nuclear fuel. They're most likely trying to build modern miniaturized nukes for short the range missile capability they have.
The yield was very small, about 20% of Nagasaki. It is now suspected that was intentional and in fact planned. They are simply trying to make a nuke small enough for transport by missile and don't care if the yield is low because of portability measures.
A 4 kilo yield air burst at 800 feet would flatten any downtown core.
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
Gee, ya think?
Well, not as far as I could throw him:
http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~jjpark/
I am originally from Orange County, California. My interest in the earth sciences began began after the 1971 earthquake in Sylmar, California tossed me from my bed. I was introduced to plate tectonics the following year and was hooked on earth science for life. I received my Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Princeton University in 1979, where I worked as a go-fer in the geology department. I gave my first talk at an AGU meeting in 1980, arguing against a theory that large earthquakes could cause observable changes in the Earth’s rotation axis. I received my Doctorate in Earth Sciences in 1985 from the University of California, San Diego. From 1985-1986, I did a post doc at Princeton University and from 1986 I have been on the faculty of Yale University.
more about Park:
http://earth.geology.yale.edu/people/moreinfo.cgi?netid=jjpark
-another source-
Russians overestimate power of North Korean blast ... again
Peter Alford
May 28, 2009
The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25547657-25837,00.htm
NORTH Korea’s nuclear explosion on Monday was far smaller than the initial estimate. The maximum likely yield of the North Korean device was four kilotons (the explosive equivalent of 4000 tonnes of TNT) or less, according to the emerging scientific consensus, rather than the 10-20 kilotons estimated on the day by the Russian Defence Ministry.
Or they could be testing small weapons that they are capable of being carried by their current stock of missiles, which is more probable.
I wonder if he plan something for Fourth of July weekend where Obama probably be in Hawaii kicking it we watching Twilight Zone on Sci fi channel
I wonder if he plan something for Fourth of July weekend where Obama probably be in Hawaii kicking it we watching Twilight Zone on Sci fi channel
"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"