Topic: N. Korea Nuke Test (Read 1545 times)

FCM_SFHQ_XC · « **on:** October 09, 2006, 04:18:15 pm »

Well I looked at the news today and N. Korea has made a sucessful nuke test today. Scientists estimate it to be somewhere in the 500 megaton range which is still tiny compared to atomic bombs of the US and other nuclear countries.. while most likely not a threat to the US, it is a threat to China, S. Korea, and Japan..what do you think?

I personally think that N. Korea needs to stop these nuke tests now.. we dont need another country with nukes.. no matter how crude. Even though these nukes dont pose too much of a threat it is possible with the crude methods they use.. that if they try for anything bigger then they could end up blowing up themselves along with parts of other countries(just 1 of many possibilities!!)..

Just plain old Punisher · « **Reply #1 on:** October 09, 2006, 05:52:38 pm »

500 megatons?

The largest bomb on earth was made by the Russians and that was around 50 megatons.

The N Korean nuke was estimated to be around .5 kt, which lead many people to believe that the core "Fizzled" and didn't reach full yield.

Sirgod · « **Reply #2 on:** October 09, 2006, 06:53:21 pm »

BTW, we have a few threads on this situation over in H&S in case anyones Interested. I didn't know if Capt_SFHQ_XC had access or not.

Stephen

FCM_SFHQ_XC · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2006, 02:10:55 pm »

Nope I dont have access to H&S which is why..
.5 kt
The ones Pakistan and India tested were in the 4 to 12 kt range

Hexx · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2006, 02:19:12 pm »

Quote from: Capt_SFHQ_XC on October 10, 2006, 02:10:55 pm

Nope I dont have access to H&S which is why..
500 megatons = .5 kt
The ones Pakistan and India tested were in the 4 to 12 kt range

Might want to redo that
kilo= thousand
mega= million

There's a thousand kilotons in a megaton.

Dracho · « **Reply #5 on:** October 10, 2006, 02:49:30 pm »

Anygthing in the Megaton range would be in the H-bomb class. An A-bomb uses shaped charges to implode a uranium core and start a fission reaction. An H-bomb uses an A-bomb to start a fusion reaction.

A-bombs use fission and are in the kilo-ton range. H-bombs use fusion and are up to 1000x more powerful than A-bombs, but an A-bomb is a component of an H-bomb.

There are some other odd-ball types of weapons, such as neutron bombs and boosted-fission bombs, and the dreaded Cobalt bomb (think dirty-bomb, only using a nuclear reaction instead of regular explosives to spread the contaminant).

Basically, North Korea has managed to build the detonator for one of our weapons.

FCM_SFHQ_XC · « **Reply #6 on:** October 10, 2006, 03:57:46 pm »

Quote from: Hexx on October 10, 2006, 02:19:12 pm

Might want to redo that
kilo= thousand
mega= million

There's a thousand kilotons in a megaton.

Sorry.. fixed that.. fighting a cold all day doesnt help in my typing LOL.

IAF Lyrkiller · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2006, 09:14:49 pm »

Well, we now start to arm Japan, S. Korea, and Taiwan.

Toast · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2006, 10:50:29 pm »

I saw that Japan has banned all imports and exports to N Korea for this action thats a start i guess, And once again Russia@China refuse even strong language in a silly UN resolution, and it seems parties in the Un want the US to have one on one talks with N Korea which basically means America pay them off for the rest of us,The US an GB an a few allies cant police the whole flippin world and as an American im sick of OUR money not Washingtons thrown at every problem, America is in debt her people are over taxed and were tired of working our azzes off paying for a party the rest of the world dosn't seem to want us at. Its getting time for some other folks on this little blue marble we all dwell on to step up IMHO, TYRANTS,TERRORIST with Nukes affects us all.

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