Posted on 12/10/2015 1:18:33 AM PST by matt1234
North Korea claims to have developed a new kind of nuclear weapon to add to its arsenal – the hydrogen bomb. It is still unclear whether the latest claim of Kim Jong-un is a gimmick or a real threat.
Pyongyang is capable of launching hydrogen bombs and not just nuclear weapons, declared the country's leader, Kim Jong-un. According to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), he was speaking at Phyongchon Revolutionary Site, a historic venue for the regime, in the North Korean capital.
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Wouldn’t surprise me. The Soviets got the H Bomb five years after the fission bomb. Took us slightly longer, seven years (because we got there through science, not espionage). This is when things get scary.
Aren’t nuclear weapons H-Bombs? If they’ve only just developed them, weren’t the Norks armed with mere Atomic weapons rather than nukes?
It’s hard, but not impossible. Once you have the trigger (fission bomb), the rest is a mechanical construction of cheap Lithium deuteride and U-238. Just build it right and test a few times and it’s a done deal.
They only had ‘atomic’ ones, which are fission only. Perhaps boosted with tritium, which is simply gas that’s injected into the core right at explosion. Doubles the blast.
The Teller-Ulam thermonuclear design is a big harder, but hardly impossible once your have fission worked out.
Fission, fusion...they’re all nuclear weapons. It’s all about creating the chain reaction.
Can we give O’Bunghole another Nobel prize, or do we have to wait until after he achieves his final solution with the vaporization of Jeruselem?
Bamarama wants Tel Aviv not Jerusalem nuked. To many Hamas buddies in Jerusalem
Careful now Kimmie boy....you may wind up like ole Saddam!
Nuclear weapon=fission, fusion
Fission=nuke, atomic,neutron, A-bomb
Fusion=nuke, hydrogen, thermonuclear, H-bomb
Atomic weapons are nukes
NK has fission nukes, A-bombs
All varieties will kill you.
No. Atomic bombs are fission reactions. Hydrogen bombs, or thermonuclear bombs, are fusion devices that use a fission reaction as a detonator.
Fusion gives off way much more energy.
Some quicker tha others, by nanoseconds.
I think they’re full of it. They have the material and the technology to make an atomic bomb is seven years old. However, IMHO - they lack the technical expertise to remove the 240 from their available plutonium to make it weapons grade.
I dunno.....
....Just developing one does not ensure the ability to deliver it.
The first Hydrogen weapons that were developed weighed tons. Aircraft were devised to solely carry them (B-58 Hustler was one). It took decades of well funded research and a lot of dedicated, educated, well paid (and well fed) Scientists to develop fieldable weapons.
I think that the Norks would have a hard time delivering a fission weapon to the target due to size and weight problems. A hydrogen weapon is 10 times worse.
Gotta get more fertilizer first.
Once you've solved all those physics/science/engineering problems you have to then solve a whole new set to make it small enough and rugged enough to transport to your target. Something between a shipping container and a small cone on the end of a missile - depending on how you intend to deliver it.
All that is a lot of sophisticated science and engineering for a Country that has demonstrated it has a hard time with (relatively) simple "rocket science." Though they are getting better, in fits and starts, at that. They are probably advancing in nuclear weapons technology too. Hard to gauge progress (both for us and them) when they aren't testing actual devices...
Nope. There are two types. Fission and fusion.
Fission devices are called single stage and use either Uranium or Plutonium cores to create the fission and thus the effects.
Fusion devices are two stage (sometimes more) that use a fission core, the first stage, to compress a second stage that create a fusion reaction. This creates much more devastating effects.
More likely a boosted fission weapon.
North Korea fission weapons have been < 1kt yield because they (I think) have been using reactor grade Pu239 with Pu240 impurities.
Warhead pre-detonates before full implosion.
By placing Tritium in the center of the core, you can boost the yield and thus call it an “H-bomb”
Russians did this on their first “H-bomb” but the rest were real multi-stage weapons.
6 0f 1, a dozen and a half of the other. LOL.
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