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2017-09-03 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea Says It Tested a Hydrogen Bomb Meant for Missiles

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-03 11:51|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
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#1 And we just sit and watch. And complain.

Posted by gorb 2017-09-03 13:21|| 2017-09-03 13:21|| Front Page Top

#2 apparently, it is difficult to tell whether they have actually tested an H bomb or an A bomb with some neutron enhanced hydrogen in it

Posted by lord garth 2017-09-03 13:26|| 2017-09-03 13:26|| Front Page Top

#3 300 kT to 800 kT using back of envelope calculations. No doubt it was a hydrogen bomb.

Posted by John Frum 2017-09-03 15:07|| 2017-09-03 15:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably beyond that stage of 'diplomatic solutions'..... or did somebody else say that ?

We either let that nut job put everyone on the planet (less China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran) in his crosshairs, or we go at it !

Sort of black and white at this point.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-03 15:10|| 2017-09-03 15:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Having Tokyo or Seoul or Los Angeles getting hit by a thermonuclear weapon in response to an attack would be unacceptable. So Kimmie gets to keep his nukes. However they don't generate economic activity or feed people so all he has is some toys he cannot use.

Posted by John Frum 2017-09-03 15:16|| 2017-09-03 15:16|| Front Page Top

#6 and share with Iran, Syria, .....

Posted by Frank G 2017-09-03 15:41|| 2017-09-03 15:41|| Front Page Top

#7 "Having Tokyo or Seoul or Los Angeles getting hit by a thermonuclear weapon in response to an attack would be unacceptable."

Ah... That's why from this point all attacks are thermonuclear or asteroid and need to include Pakistan and Iran.

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-03 15:54|| 2017-09-03 15:54|| Front Page Top

#8 So Kimmie gets to keep his nukes. However they don't generate economic activity or feed people so all he has is some toys he cannot use.

To paraphrase Niccolo Machiavelli "Money won't always get you nukes, but nukes can get you money"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-03 16:15|| 2017-09-03 16:15|| Front Page Top

#9 g(r)omgoru - the Trump voters expect something more kinetic. Seriously.

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-03 16:46|| 2017-09-03 16:46|| Front Page Top

#10 g(r)omgoru - the Trump voters expect something more kinetic. Seriously.

(i) How does this relates to what I said?
(ii) Trump voters also expect draining the swamp.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-03 16:51|| 2017-09-03 16:51|| Front Page Top

#11 This afternoon I noticed North Korea is sending coded messages through the North Korean News Agency Twitter account in English. Continued phsycological warfare.

This is at this point phsycological war fare that the US is not winning because we are just talking, Kim is puting actual leathal military assets into action demonstrating tremendously dangerous capabilities. He is not talking. He is Doing.

The U S can do likewise if it would just do it. Very low high speed stealth raptor fly overs of known Kim and upper mil locations, command centers in the middle of the night is the same thing to them as Kim lainching unexpected missiles over Japan. Constant B52 high altitude sonic booms over Pongyang. The steady dripping of actual phsycological induced dread by the US in this manner can effectively counter the steady dripping of dread campaign Kim is using against his neighbors.

Play his close call action game better than him.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-09-03 18:50|| 2017-09-03 18:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Funny how all the reports are saying how North Korea says and not saying much about the US detecting a nuclear test.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-09-03 18:57|| 2017-09-03 18:57|| Front Page Top

#13 NY Times said the shockwaves were felt in China and South Korea but I'd always understood the US could tell the yield and other info by the magnitude of the shockwaves.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-09-03 19:33|| 2017-09-03 19:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Concerning what TJ8135 said: I was at water's edge during Seafair a few weeks before the first Gulf war watching and listening to the Blue Angels thunder right overhead below mast height. I remember thinking at the time that were I Saddam I would be deeply unnerved by the experience.

Posted by Blossom Tingle4959 2017-09-03 21:41|| 2017-09-03 21:41|| Front Page Top

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