Re: Was it a dud?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

See also:

 http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002832.html

- ferg

-- "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
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...




--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com


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