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Re: Was it a dud?
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:31:02 -0400
here is a site from 1999, funny about the title "Why So Much Fuss Over North Korea's High Explosive Tests?" but the important infor is this: from: http://www.kimsoft.com/1997/leew991.htm One KT equals 4.2 x 10**12 Joules of energy or 1.2 million KWH. It is enough to shake the impact ground with 4.3 Richter scale. 4-5 MT of power equates to a small earthquake. (Indeed, one KT nuclear device may cause a major earthquake if detonated at a right spot.) --------------- and here is the report from south korea about what their richter scales picked up: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldnews&storyID=2006-10-09T065452Z_01_L08141538_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH.xml&WTmodLoc=IntNewsHome_R1_worldnews-1 or http://tinyurl.com/m3fl2 The U.S. Geological Survey said it had detected a 4.2 magnitude quake in North Korea at 10:35 local time (0135 GMT) on Monday, confirming a similar report from South Korea. -------------------------------- how come all the US news is "we think" or "it may" the facts are out there and not too hard to find, I guess They get better ratings by not reporting them scary -JP On 10/10/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:
http://www.drudgereport.com/ GERTZ: U.S. doubts Korean test was nuclear; Readings fall short of atomic explosion... MORE... U.S. intelligence agencies say, based on preliminary indications, that North Korea did not produce its first nuclear blast yesterday, WASHINGTON TIMES star reporter Bill Gertz is set to report in Tuesday editions. U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used to create a chain reaction in a plutonium-based device went off, but that the blast's readings were shy of a typical nuclear detonation. The underground explosion, which Pyongyang dubbed a historic nuclear test, is thought to have been the equivalent of several hundred tons of TNT, far short of the several thousand tons of TNT, or kilotons, that are signs of a nuclear blast, the official said. Developing... _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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