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To: weegee

Anyone have info on the strength of this bomb or what N.Korea could potentially put on a missile?


2 posted on 10/09/2006 12:21:22 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee
I've seen conflicting reports of yield being anywhere from 0.1 to 0.5 kiloton.

The bomb we dropped on Hiroshima was 14.5 kt.

So the NK bomb seems to have been at most 3-4% as powerful as the USA's very first weapon deployed.

The very first test bomb the USA conducted in NM, "The Gadget", was 18kt.

7 posted on 10/09/2006 12:39:42 PM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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