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North Korea said it successfully tested a HYDROGEN bomb yesterday. If true, can you guess what comes next?

Posted - September 3, 2017

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  • 2971
    Tweets and/or war.
      September 3, 2017 6:18 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    Bottlerockets!
      September 3, 2017 6:38 AM MDT
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  • 2500
    Seismological confirmation of that test.
      September 3, 2017 8:07 AM MDT
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  • 13269
    Already happened, per qz.com...

    North Korea said on Sunday (Sept. 3) that it has successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test for use with an intercontinental ballistic missile, hours after South Korea and other nations detected a tremor near a site where Pyongyang has conducted past nuclear tests that caused seismic disturbances.

    The US Geological Service put the magnitude of the seismic disturbance at 6.3 on the Richter scale, considerably higher than the tremors recorded in the country’s past nuclear tests. South Korean and Japanese officials have confirmed the test; South Korea’s meteorological service put the tremor at 5.7. Norway’s NORSAR seismological observatory put the seismic magnitude at 5.8.

    This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at September 3, 2017 1:45 PM MDT
      September 3, 2017 1:45 PM MDT
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  • 2500
    Preliminary data is in but it will take extensive analysis from all those seismograph locations to determine the approximate yield of the device, the location of the test and how deep underground the test took place. And if the data indicates that the yield was less than 3/4-megaton then they still won't know if it was a fusion or a fission device.
      September 4, 2017 12:24 AM MDT
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  • 13269
    If it was a hydrogen bomb, what difference does any of that make? Or are you just being argumentative for no particular reason?
      September 4, 2017 12:39 AM MDT
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  • 2500
    Just being factual, not argumentative. 

    And if DOES make a difference. If the device had a yield less than about 3/4-megaton then it could very well be a fission device and not a fusion device (commonly called a hydrogen bomb, which actually uses tritium, a thermonuclear device). There are other "tells" to be had from the complete analysis of the data too. Such data analysis is important in analyzing present development status and future potential on the part of the North Koreans. 
      September 4, 2017 12:51 AM MDT
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  • 13269
    None of us really knows, do we?
      September 3, 2017 1:47 PM MDT
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  • We hand in our handburgers and fries for boiled rat meat and  rancid kimmchi.
      September 3, 2017 2:10 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    Don't forget the bad haircuts.


      September 3, 2017 2:37 PM MDT
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  • 13269
    *hamburgers
      September 3, 2017 10:32 PM MDT
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  • should have carpet bombed the place into oblivion 50 years ago.
      September 3, 2017 2:44 PM MDT
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  • "No, I'm not getting a clear reading."

      September 4, 2017 1:00 AM MDT
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