[MJY1288]

I havn't heard of the micro nukes, If you have any links on them, please share. My father worked on the Manhatton Project developing the VT fuse,. He had no idea what the fuse was for at the time. It wasn't till after Japan surrendered and a visit by Harry S. Truman to John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab to thank them all for their work, did he realize what the VT Fuse was for. I have a demo of one sitting here on my desk :-) I believe the VT Fuse is still in use today on the 75H and 105H rounds

[Joe Hadenuf]

I havn't heard of the micro nukes

They are routinely called small tactical nukes. The current testing, design and technology is focused on smaller nukes, not for large globe busting nukes. It's the wave of the future for nukes......

[El Gato]

If you have any links on them, please share.

It's a bit late to go link hunting. But a good place to start is www.fas.org The Federation of American Scientists site. They even have a page up already on the N. Korean program.

[Dan Day]

I havn't heard of the micro nukes, If you have any links on them, please share.

Here you go

Yes, that thing on the end is actually a nuclear bomb, a model W54 warhead. Yield could be dialed between 0.02 and 1.0 kilotons. That's 1/750th to 1/15th the size of the Hiroshima bomb.

Here's the same warhead packed as a nuclear "land mine", for demolition:

The nuke is the small item on the *left* -- the larger item in the middle is its packing/carrying case.