Was it a dud?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

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... 

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