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(LEAD) N. Korea says it has conducted hydrogen bomb test
Yonhap News ^
| 2016/01/06
Posted on 01/05/2016 7:44:32 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
(LEAD) N. Korea says it has conducted hydrogen bomb test
2016/01/06 12:43
(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; ADDS more info)
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea announced Wednesday it has succeeded in conducting a hydrogen bomb test, hours after what seems to be an artificial earthquake was detected close to the North's nuclear test site.
In a "special" announcement aired on the North's state television station, North Korea said it conducted an H-bomb test at 10:00 a.m. (Pyongyang Time).
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; dprk; hbomb; hydrogenbomb; japan; korea; nkhbomb; nkorea; norks; northkorea; nucleartest; nuke; obamalegacy; pyongyang; republicofkorea; test; worldwarthree
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To: StoneWall Brigade
A hydrogen bomb could peel all the bark off the trees.
Leaving the Norks with nothing left in their diet...
To: DiogenesLamp
"A Dud."
Seismic readings indicate 45KT.
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posted on
01/05/2016 9:11:55 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
To: EternalVigilance
You’re right my good friend.
To: ironman
Fusion boosted fission without a 238 jacket?
To: TigerLikesRooster
To: SpaceBar; Robert A. Cook, PE; RayChuang88; DiogenesLamp; Ozark Tom; TigerLikesRooster
See the facility described and illustrated in the following from 2006, and you'll see how N. Korea's claim is likely correct. Thanks to TigerLikesRooster.
S. Korean Lawmaker, "Russia might have given N. Korea know-how of miniature nukes"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717327/posts
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posted on
01/05/2016 9:51:14 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
To: Mariner
It’s pretty likely No Korea had help, probably from rogue scientists out of Pakistan.
To: SpaceBar; Robert A. Cook, PE; RayChuang88; DiogenesLamp; Ozark Tom; TigerLikesRooster
Those missiles shown years ago weren’t fake, either. The conspiracy-theory-like denials are getting old. Underestimating our enemies with vain assumptions is poor strategy. Our anti-missile defense and offense systems should be upgraded, even at the small costs of interrupting pay raises for civilian salary interests and reconsidering foolish diplomatic trends.
The risk of nuclear exchanges started by rogue nations and likely joined by larger expansionist nations is higher than ever before.
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posted on
01/05/2016 9:59:01 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
To: SpaceBar; Robert A. Cook, PE; RayChuang88; DiogenesLamp; Ozark Tom; TigerLikesRooster
Watch the video for footage of what appears to be the preparation and shot. Thanks to TigerLikesRooster.
TigerLikesRooster wrote:
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Here is a N. Korean news clip which announces their H-bomb test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW7zBizTr5g"
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posted on
01/05/2016 10:17:27 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
To: AU72
Look for a stern letter coming from Sec State Kerry (Vietnam). lol
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posted on
01/05/2016 11:34:18 PM PST
by
Mr Apple
(www.angelfire.com/md2/Ldotvets/Bubba_47.html Trump 2016)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
The sequence in an H-bomb is, #1, fission bomb, which provides the heat and pressure (and neutrons) needed to get the deuterium to fuse as #2 and largest kaboom; #3 is secondary fission explosion made possible by the outward pressure from the fusion; #4 is a secondary fusion in the core, from the leftovers; and #5 is a small fission explosion from the last of the fissile material. The sequence takes a fraction of a second.
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posted on
01/05/2016 11:36:40 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: entropy12; dennisw; MarvinStinson; Nachum; SJackson; MinorityRepublican
I’d imagine the Israeli subs are out of their bases and won’t come up any time soon.
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posted on
01/05/2016 11:40:29 PM PST
by
Mr Apple
(www.angelfire.com/md2/Ldotvets/Bubba_47.html Trump 2016)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Meanwhile Obama prepares Helium bomb test. /s
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posted on
01/05/2016 11:46:24 PM PST
by
Cvengr
( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Yes. Iran is first in line ...
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posted on
01/06/2016 2:44:32 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: DiogenesLamp
There were 3 atom bomb tests in all; this is the fourth
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posted on
01/06/2016 2:45:55 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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posted on
01/06/2016 3:54:00 AM PST
by
DocRock
(All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
To: DiogenesLamp
I don’t doubt that already have a couple of nukes (by supply) and that they have the technology to build more and are doing so.
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posted on
01/06/2016 5:40:48 AM PST
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
To: ConservativeMind
I have samples of Trinitite that are still radioactive. Fallout, especially for a ground-lever thermonuke, can last a long time. Cesium-137 has a half life of 30+ years, Tritium 13+ years, Cobalt 60, 5+ years. Silicon has some isotopes with a half life of over 100 years, which is why, I think, Trinitite is still making the Geiger tick.
If you go to Sedan crater (1962)in the test range, there is still easily measurable radioactivity. there are tours but they confiscate radiation measuring equipment. It took six or seven months of cool-down before people could enter the crater.
True, MOST of the isotopes are short-lived, but after a year, the long lives dominate.
As for neutron bombs, the one we used to field had an explosive yield of about a kiloton, 280 times larger than Timmy McVeigh’s ANFO bomb. They are not too kind to buildings. They were designed to kill men in tanks since neutrons go through steel like it’s a window but have a short range in air.
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posted on
01/06/2016 5:44:15 AM PST
by
DBrow
To: Mariner
Seismic readings indicate 45KT. Decent for a fission bomb. Very unlikely to be a hydrogen bomb.
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posted on
01/06/2016 6:12:07 AM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: ironman
The last one registered 5.1 and had an estimated yield of 8KT or so. If this was a hydrogen bomb it was a dud. I thought their first one was around 5 kilotons. Our first one was around 20. We just got better from there.
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posted on
01/06/2016 6:14:00 AM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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