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  • #16
    The South Korean media doesn't seem to be too worried about it.

    This is from CNN:



    "The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire."

    Right...
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    • #17
      Found this:



      The fireball from a 10-kiloton explosion at ground level would reach a radius of 200 meters, hence would have a diameter of 400 meters or about a quarter of a mile. Everything within this radius would be completely destroyed. In the case of a badly designed or badly implemented bomb that yielded only 1 kiloton, the fireball would have a diameter about 2.5 times smaller, hence about 150 meters. The surface explosion of a 100 kiloton weapon, as conceivably might be stolen from the arsenal of an advanced nuclear-weapon state, would produce a fireball 1 kilometer in diameter.


      So this bomb is significantly more energetic than 100 kilotons.
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      • #18
        Originally posted by Ramo
        Hmmm... apparantly SK's Unification Minister...
        I stopped reading right there. For a whole lot of reasons.
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        • #19
          True, but at least he's not an anonymous source.
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          • #20
            How is SK behavior explained? Is there an overwhelming desire to put unification over safety and well-being? Is the South government in league with the North?
            It's the Unification Minister. It's like a Minister for McDonalds advocating eating four Big Macs a day. We know it's wrong, but the Minister isn't going to say otherwise is he?

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Ramo
              True, but at least he's not an anonymous source.
              It's actually quite a bit worse given the behavior of SK wrt North Korea.
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              • #22
                If that was a test, was the DPRK trying to piss of China?
                For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                • #23
                  With an explosion that big, both us and the South Koreans know EXACTLY what happened.

                  There is not guessing whatsoever.

                  They are just trying to figure out how to either sell it or quiet it down.
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                  • #24
                    Might be both -- they may have managed to accidentally pop the nuke before it got to the test site.

                    If it was a deliberate, successful test, North Korea would be trumpeting it from the mountaintops, and it seems a little...big...to be anything else.
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                    • #25
                      was the DPRK trying to piss of China?
                      Indeed, that can't be going well with them.
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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by The Mad Monk
                        Might be both -- they may have managed to accidentally pop the nuke before it got to the test site.

                        If it was a deliberate, successful test, North Korea would be trumpeting it from the mountaintops, and it seems a little...big...to be anything else.
                        I like this theory.

                        I think they messed something up.
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


                          Indeed, that can't be going well with them.
                          That's why I lean towards the fact it might be an accident. Why would they do something like that? there one last ally?
                          For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Ramo
                            Found this:



                            The fireball from a 10-kiloton explosion at ground level would reach a radius of 200 meters, hence would have a diameter of 400 meters or about a quarter of a mile. Everything within this radius would be completely destroyed. In the case of a badly designed or badly implemented bomb that yielded only 1 kiloton, the fireball would have a diameter about 2.5 times smaller, hence about 150 meters. The surface explosion of a 100 kiloton weapon, as conceivably might be stolen from the arsenal of an advanced nuclear-weapon state, would produce a fireball 1 kilometer in diameter.


                            So this bomb is significantly more energetic than 100 kilotons.
                            the cloud = the fireball?

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                            • #29
                              Lord knows, this is proof positive that we were right to go into Iraq!
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                              • #30
                                Some other people said that Hiroshima was 5km on another forum, and that would put this explosion in the 6-10 kiloton range apparently.

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