[backhoe]

Just in from the blogs:

North Korea Goes Nuclear: The Largest Roundup With Commentary In The Blogosphere

THE BELMONT CLUB ASKS: "Was North Korea testing a suitcase nuke?"

The W54 warhead used on the Davy Crockett weighed just 51 pounds and was the smallest and lightest fission bomb (implosion type) ever deployed by the United States, with a variable explosive yield of 0.01 kilotons (equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, or two to four times as powerful as the ammonium nitrate bomb which destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995), or 0.02 kilotons-1 kiloton. A 58.6 pound variant the B54 was used in the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), a nuclear land mine deployed in Europe, South Korea, Guam, and the United States from 1964-1989.
micro nukes & delivery system, forty year old technology.

The XM-388 casing (including the warhead and fin assembly) weighed 76 pounds, was 30 inches long and measured 11 inches in diameter (at its widest point).

[saveliberty]

Thanks, I should have scrolled to your post first.

Sorry

[muawiyah]

Be careful ~ we have some younger Freepers who simply don't realize the US had tactical battlefield nukes in the arsenal and that some of the older f*rtz who post here were actually in the chain of command concerning their care and use.

Sometimes the Cold War would set off a geiger counter.

[Redleg Duke]

Back in the nid-60s, I joined the Wisconsin Army National Guard as a mortarman. As the senior, training guy in the platoon, I was the Platoon Sergeant as a Spec-4 and had to take the MOS test. I did all of the studying for it, and to my surprise, that included the Davy Crockett! Interesting weapon, with the launcher mounted to the rear corner of a jeep.

[RayChuang88]

What scares me is that North Korea did test what is known as an atomic demolition munition with a yield around 1 kT. Even at 1 kT, you detonate such a bomb in a dense downtown of any major American city and you could kill 80,000 to 100,000 people immediately from the blast and immediate radiation effects and maybe another 100,000 more from delayed radiation sickness effects. Also, because the bomb is detonated at ground level, it will kick up a huge amount of lethally radioactive fallout and the crater left from the explosion will also be lethally radioactive for decades (think the Chernobyl disaster but many times worse).

[ColoradoAce]

That thing is like a nuclear hand grenade.....better dig a trench before you light it off!!

[GOP_1900AD]

So on that note, and considering how many artillery tubes and recoilless rifles the DPRK has, and looking at the distance from Seoul to the DPRK .....