Posted on 03/30/2013 3:41:20 PM PDT by Arthurio
No doubt they has thousands ofrockets. But I doubt they have very many missiles...and none which can reach CONUS.
The chihuahua is barking as the adults conduct war games. When the games are over the chihuahua will lift his little leg on the fence and prance back and forth in victory.
These people are really nuts - accusing the US of provoking a nuclear war????
Obama’s new personal residence is in Hawaii. When NORKs threaten his house, they risk suicide by cop.
you do realize that they do this several times a day, on a good day and his bluster really isn’t anything different or new.
We don’t need no stinkin B2s there is a Nuclear Sub just off the coast that can obliterate there so called country in a heart beat!
Yawn
But I doubt they have very many missiles...and none which can reach CONUS.
Ive read the North can put a million artillery shells per hour into Soul. And, as satisfying as a nuclear strike might seem to some, the genie has been back in the bottle 68 years. Using nukes will represent a sea change and there are many more nukes around than youd imagine. The real fear of nukes isnt that theyll be launched from countries, which will give us the return address, but that theyll be assembled in the US and we wont know where they came from. Non-state actors will probably have nukes shortly, if they dont already. Chinese warlords, Russian robber barons and Pakistani militants are only some of the actors with potential access to nukes. Also, dont forget a conventional bomb salted with nuclear material could potentially render millions of acres uninhabitable. What if they did it to New York? This is why we need a blustering crazy-seeming badass in the White House stomping around in cowboy boots and mispronouncing nuclear; somebody with no understanding of the subtleties of diplomacy.
Another War of Northern Aggression?
All your base are belong to us.
What I want to know, is where is the nuclear football when Obama is out on the golf course? I mean, could we have a nuclear attack and the un-kim show up and take, say LA, like Peter Sellers in the Mouse that Roared? And all because our own Dear Leader was awol golfing when it happened?
Both North Korean nuclear tests look suspiciously like a Super-EMP weapon. A Super-EMP warhead would have a low yield, like the North Korean device, because it is not designed to create a big explosion, but to convert its energy into gamma rays, that generate the EMP effect. Reportedly South Korean military intelligence concluded, independent of the EMP Commission, that Russian scientists are in North Korea helping develop a Super-EMP warhead. In 2012, a military commentator for the Peoples Republic of China stated that North Korea has Super-EMP nuclear warheads.
A Super-EMP warhead would not weigh much, and could probably be delivered by North Koreas ICBM. The missile does not have to be accurate, as the EMP field is so large that detonating anywhere over the United States would have catastrophic consequences. The warhead does not even need a re-entry vehicle, as an EMP attack entails detonating the warhead at high-altitude, above the atmosphere.
So, as of Dec. 12, North Koreas successful orbit of a satellite demonstrates its ability to make an EMP attack against the United States right now.
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North Korea appears to have borrowed more from the Russians than the design of a Super-EMP warhead.
During the Cold War, the USSR experimented with a secret weapon, the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS), that used an ICBM like a Space Launch Vehicle to put a nuclear warhead into orbit, like a satellite. Instead of using the ICBM to lob the warhead on a more accurate arcing ballistic trajectory, flying along the shortest range to target, like an artillery shell, the FOBS lofted the warhead into a "fractional" or partial orbit, sacrificing accuracy for limitless range.
FOBS could reach any nation or threaten any target anywhere on Earth.
A Super-EMP warhead does not weigh much, and could probably be delivered by North Korea's Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, successfully tested in December 2012, against any nation on Earth. Thus, North Korea already possesses an ICBM and poses a mortal nuclear threat to the United States, and to all nations on Earth--right now.
North Korea, during the successful test of its ICBM on December 12, 2012, orbited a satellite weighing 100 kilograms (about 200 pounds). One design of a Super-EMP warhead would be a modified neutron bomb, more accurately an Enhanced Radiation Warhead (ERW) because it produces not only many neutrons but also many gamma rays. As noted earlier, gamma rays cause the EMP effect. One U.S. ERW warhead (the W-82) deployed in NATO during the Cold War weighed, including its heavy casing, less than 50 kilograms. Since the EMP attack entails detonating the warhead at high-altitude, above the atmosphere, the warhead does not even need a heavy re-entry vehicle and heat shield.
North Korea's ICBM does not have to be accurate to make an EMP attack against the United States.
The EMP field is so large that detonating anywhere over the U.S. would have catastrophic consequences. North Korea orbited its satellite around the Earth at an altitude of about 500 kilometers. The trajectory of North Korea's satellite is no accident--they deliberately aimed for and achieved this orbit and altitude, as announced before their launch.
An altitude of 500 kilometers would be ideal for making an EMP attack that places the field over the entire lower 48 United States.
North Korea's ICBM, delivering an EMP attack by means of an inaccurate satellite warhead, would likely miss its horizontal aimpoint over the geographic center of the U.S. by tens of kilometers. Bursting the warhead at an altitude of 500 kilometers would compensate for this inaccuracy by creating an EMP field big enough to cover everything. North Korea's satellite did not pass over the United States--but a slight adjustment in its trajectory would have flown it over or near the U.S. bull's eye for a high-altitude EMP burst.
Surprise Attack
The primary purpose of the Fractional Orbital Bombardments System, that North Korea appears to have borrowed from Russia, is to make a surprise nuclear attack. FOBS is stealthy as it can strike from any direction, from unexpected directions, not just from the shortest direction or by using the trajectory that would be normal for an ICBM. Because FOBS looks like a Space Launch Vehicle, not an ICBM making a nuclear attack, this disguise optimizes chances for achieving surprise.
During the Cold War, Moscow experimented with a stealthy way of delivering a nuclear attack on the United States using a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System to elude radar detection. This would entail launching an ICBM southward, away from the United States, so it appears non-threatening, and delivering the warhead like a satellite on a south polar orbit, so the nuclear attack comes at the U.S. from the south.
During the Cold War--and today--the United States has no Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radars or missile interceptors facing south. We would not even see an attack from the south coming.
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One signature of a Super-EMP weapon is that it has a very low explosive yield, just several kilotons, or even less if it is more efficient, because the weapon is converting the energy of the nuclear warhead into gamma rays.
In 2004, the Russian generals told the EMP Commission that North Korea was getting help developing a Super-EMP nuclear weapon from contractors from Russia, China, Pakistan and elsewhere, and could probably test such a weapon "in a few years." A few years later, in 2006, North Korea tested its mysterious "nuclear device" that produced an explosive yield of only several kilotons, and so was derided by the Western press as a failure--but hailed as a success by North Korea.
Independently of the Congressional EMP Commission, South Korean military intelligence several times warned their government, in stories reported in South Korean press, that Russians are in North Korea helping them develop a Super-EMP nuclear warhead. In response, the South Korean government launched projects to harden their military communications and other critical infrastructures.
In 2010, according to some reputable European analysts, radioisotope data indicates North Korea may have conducted two clandestine nuclear tests of a very low yield "nuclear device" of sophisticated fusion design. This is indicative of a weapons program that is very technologically advanced, and consistent with development of a Super-EMP warhead.
In 2012, a military commentator for the People's Republic of China told a Hong Kong journal that North Korea has Super-EMP nuclear warheads.
This communique is meant to stoke hatred and nationalism among their poor peasants and masses. It isn’t meant for outside consumption.
It’s not the weaponary of the NorK’s that matters, they can kick up some dust, but Mainland China is pulling this guy’s strings. China who gives DPRK everything from food to fuel, has decided to test a weak and bumbling American President by proxy. And Both Un, and the new Female leader of the south need to prove something to their people.
A war in the mind of the eunuch, Kim Jong Un, and the minds of his effeminate officer staff, but he does nothing.
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