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To: raybbr; LS

The large nuclear bomb they just blew up was about 1.6 Megaton, most certainly an enhanced two-stage bomb (a hydrogen bomb, though probably not “portable” but built and assembled in the dug-out tunnel they bored underground.
Because it was an underground nuclear blast, there was no above-ground pulse released high above ground that creates the EMP damage we discussing.

But, because it was a successful “test” of a hydrogen bomb, it brings North Korea much, much closer to being able to build a bomb that CAN be lifted into the atmosphere to create a wide-area EMP pulse that CAN damage many electronics.


306 posted on 09/04/2017 7:45:02 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Now NK has a direct threat to the US, not just Japan or SK.


316 posted on 09/04/2017 9:27:13 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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