Posted on 08/27/2010 6:59:16 PM PDT by artaxerces
Kasturiranga Santhanam, the coordinator of India's 1998 nuclear tests, went public with allegations that India's much heralded Pokhran II test of a thermonuclear bomb 11 years ago was actually a fizzle.
We are totally naked vis-a-vis China, which has an inventory of 200 nuclear bombs, the vast majority of which are giant H-bombs of power equal to three million tons of TNT, Santhanam told reporters in New Delhi this week...."
(Excerpt) Read more at globalpost.com ...
And does this mean that Pakistan’s nuke test just a week after India’s did succeed? And therefore India is “naked” before Pakistan as well as China?
So what happened is there contamination from this?
This is VERY VERY VERY bad news.
It means the Hindu do not have the Bomb and the Muslims DO.
It means in the religious war to come, one ally is totally defenseless and now neutered.
In the hills and halls of Pakistan, they are doing their “Alah Akbar’s” and giving praise to Alah for taking the fire from their enemies.
Conquest in INEVITABLE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
From the article: “fizzle is a technical term for detonations that yield 30 percent less concussive force than expected, and Santhanam himself acknowledges that India’s thermonuclear device yielded an explosion equivalent to 15 to 20 kilotons of TNT the rub is that it was intended to generate 45 kilotons.”
This is what 20KTs did to Nagasaki.
Hard to call that, "non-functioning."
The bomb worked, just not as well as they would have hoped. The 2nd page of the article mentions this- “fizzle” does NOT mean it didn’t work. Also, I was shocked when the world made a big deal about Inda becoming a nuclear power in 1998- they had been one for 20+ years.
Oh definitely they have nukes, but those nukes are crude fission bombs like the ones used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the 1940s.
Thermo-nuclear weapons are orders of magnitudes more powerful. And the rub here is that they don’t have a working design, and can’t test anymore.
It means India wants Pakistan to think it is naked.
Their first test was on 18 May, 1974: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaSmiling.html
Nope, Pakistan is right around where India is in this particular technology.
Giant, crude, low-yield fission bombs.
But when the secondary fails to fire properly— such as an insufficient primary burn, improper boosting, or improperly designed reflectors or such— the result is that there CAN be some “fallout” from the “unburned” fissionable components from the secondary in particular—in the small(er) explosion that the primary produces on it's own. Hopefully, the test was underground or underwater— and fallout would be contained. Had it been a “full yield” blast with a WORKING secondary...there would STILL have been some fallout and a MUCH bigger blast— at least 10 times or more—of course.
Keep in mind—at one time—the US had a 25MT bomb(B-41), that had TWO cascaded stages of secondaries—all powered by UNDER 100KT of primary power!!
I don’t get it. We gave India the Bomb in the 1970’s so they could act as buffer to China.
It’s the technology and the industrial base.
Building a thermonuclear weapon(aka Hydrogen bomb) requires extremely exacting reflective geometries. It’s inherently difficult to get the design just right. That’s while most nuclear powers would use software to simulate the effects of a design, and then perform a dozen or more tests to perfect a single warhead design that would then be deployed for several decades.
I think India needs to do the following:
1. Get a working Hydrogen bomb design and test it out thoroughly.
2. Get working Neutron and EMP bomb designs and test it out thoroughly
This will take them about 5-10 years, assuming they were willing to risk international sanctions via more testing.
3. Then get cranking on miniaturizing the warheads. From this, they would get tactical nukes and MIRVs for ICBMs.
Step 3 might take another 10-20 years to realize however.
Nagasaki: it looks like a few bridges were still standing, amazingly.
India’s flood machine seems to be
working OK.
Or 30 lakh tons of TNT, as the case may be.
But when the secondary fails to fire properly such as an insufficient primary burn, improper boosting, or improperly designed reflectors or such the result is that there CAN be some fallout from the unburned fissionable components from the secondary in particularin the small(er) explosion that the primary produces on it's own. Hopefully, the test was underground or underwater and fallout would be contained. Had it been a full yield blast with a WORKING secondary...there would STILL have been some fallout and a MUCH bigger blast at least 10 times or moreof course.
Keep in mindat one timethe US had a 25MT bomb(B-41), that had TWO cascaded stages of secondariesall powered by UNDER 100KT of primary power!!”
Sir thank you for that reply it was good reading and provided insight.
I wonder and worry if better computers and algorithms might make it possible to design a working unit without testing. The Indians are pretty good with this stuff...And some unfriendly countries have taken a real liking to Sony videogames even though their kids don’t have a lot to spend on them...!
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