Posted on 09/06/2017 5:40:49 AM PDT by C19fan
Who is supplying them?
A country that wants their weapons tested
You speak as if Taiwan, Japan, and south Korea were vassal states slavishly following the US line. Sizeable numbers in all those countries want nothing to do with nuclear weapons.
The manufacturing part is the easy part. The science and research is the critically hard part.
NK over the last 50 years has perfected complex manufacturing processes using its own internal resources. Kim’s father wrote extensively about this.
If you had any personal experience in Pakistan from the 70s through the 80s and 90s, you seriously think “these people can’t possibly develop a nuclear weapon” - but they did.
In the case of North Korea, when EVERYTHING is given second place, including the health and nutrition of the population much less industry advancement in ANY OTHER area, even they can develop a nuke.
Most of the people may be living in poverty, but they have nukes.
They have the metallurgy and fabrication abilities necessary for rockets? The precision abilities for nukes?
> The manufacturing part is the easy part. The science and research is the critically hard part.
The science can be easily transferred in a person’s brain. The manufacturing...
why not do not have to have a war with us to fight us, fight korea..
I say if it goes nuclear, hit china, pakistan and russia too..
“Nuclear Device” implies a hydrogen fusion device.
“Atomic” is a fission device.
140kt is within the range for a smaller hydrogen bomb.
A 140 KT pure fission device is rather advanced. A 140 kt fission-fusion device is rather simple, and once you have the fission part down, adding basic fusion elements is rather easy.
And then there is the Hafnium problem......
Lithium 6 or 7?
That has to leave a massive radioactive hole in the ground.
I wonder how big it is.
It was probably Iran conducting nuclear test on NK territory.
How far down the list is retrofitting everything for EMP? Do we mandate gallium arsenide chips for everything?
Someone’s got to start the conversation.
I nominate President Trump.
In the 1950’s. And yeah I think they got design help.
Still it they have it, they have it.
Actually, they need to be enhance to produce gamma radiation. That is the HEMP formula. Not unlike our cold war bombs designed to produce enhanced neutron radiation.
As far as I know there has never been a 140kt fission device, though it’s possible to make one.
It would be big and heavy.
Definitely likely.
“how has it avoided detection?”
While uranium is detectable from 10s of miles away...perhaps even low orbit sats, plutonium for weapons is not detectable from across the street.
Men on subs regularly get within 5 feet of the stuff.
Modern weapons are made from mostly plutonium and Norklandia produces their own in their reactor.
Bill Clinton ensured this course.
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