North Korea probably just successfully tested a Hydrogen bomb
By Jim Stone
Kim Jong was saying a couple weeks ago that NK had the hydrogen bomb. No one believed it, and I was skeptical (but considering NK is part of the "axis of evil" I did not exactly dread it.)
Well, it looks like the region is now more stable because NO ONE is going to attack Kim Jong if he tripped a 5.3 earthquake at his nuclear test site, and Kim Jong is not stupid enough to attack anyone in any meaningful way either.
The Hiroshima blast was good for approximately a 4.2 richter yield, (assuming it was buried, it actually did not register that high due to an airburst) which puts Kim Jong considerably higher, depending on geography and other factors. I honestly can't say I am sad, the last guy I'd ever be afraid of, nukes or not, is Kim Jong. I mean, even with a king sized nuke, what could he do other than take the U.S. navy out? Really, that is all he could ever do and from where he sits, that is good enough.
UPDATE: ALL THE NEWSPAPERS ARE QUOTING WIKIPEDIA RICHTER REFERENCE FOR THE SIZE OF THE BOMB, WHICH IS A HUGE MISTAKE. Wikipedia is, as usual, DEAD WRONG. I knew seismic yields for nuclear blasts were lower than the references given in Wikipedia, which means North Korea's bomb was approximately 10 times as large as stated by Wikipedia. NK's bomb was in fact in the 100 - 200 kiloton range, which means it really might have been a small hydrogen bomb, as NK claimed they had a couple weeks ago. Here is the proof:
http://82.221.129.208/nkbomb.png
By Jim Stone
Kim Jong was saying a couple weeks ago that NK had the hydrogen bomb. No one believed it, and I was skeptical (but considering NK is part of the "axis of evil" I did not exactly dread it.)
Well, it looks like the region is now more stable because NO ONE is going to attack Kim Jong if he tripped a 5.3 earthquake at his nuclear test site, and Kim Jong is not stupid enough to attack anyone in any meaningful way either.
The Hiroshima blast was good for approximately a 4.2 richter yield, (assuming it was buried, it actually did not register that high due to an airburst) which puts Kim Jong considerably higher, depending on geography and other factors. I honestly can't say I am sad, the last guy I'd ever be afraid of, nukes or not, is Kim Jong. I mean, even with a king sized nuke, what could he do other than take the U.S. navy out? Really, that is all he could ever do and from where he sits, that is good enough.
UPDATE: ALL THE NEWSPAPERS ARE QUOTING WIKIPEDIA RICHTER REFERENCE FOR THE SIZE OF THE BOMB, WHICH IS A HUGE MISTAKE. Wikipedia is, as usual, DEAD WRONG. I knew seismic yields for nuclear blasts were lower than the references given in Wikipedia, which means North Korea's bomb was approximately 10 times as large as stated by Wikipedia. NK's bomb was in fact in the 100 - 200 kiloton range, which means it really might have been a small hydrogen bomb, as NK claimed they had a couple weeks ago. Here is the proof:
http://82.221.129.208/nkbomb.png