Scientists Probe North Korea Nuke Test

highwayman

highwayman

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So much for the big talk...




http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061009/ap/d8kl919g0.html
North Korea sets off an earthshaking explosion _ and claims it was nuclear. Was it? For scientists, that was not a quick and easy question to answer.

Like earthquakes, large explosions send out shockwaves that can be detected on seismographs. Big nuclear bombs make big waves, with clear signatures that make them fairly easy to detect, analyze and confirm that they were caused by splitting atoms. But smaller blasts _ as North Korea's appears to have been _ are trickier to break down.
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The news here is saying up to a kilo ton...That is nothing more then a popcorn fart in the nuke bomb area...
 
U.S. intelligence agencies say, based on preliminary indications, that North Korea did not produce its first nuclear blast yesterday.

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.
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Bill Gertz
As GW said, even if it wasn't a nuke, it was still a confrontational act.
 
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