[QUOTE=draugur;49285052]Nuclear conquest of Atlantis doesn't really count..[/QUOTE]
Any nuclear weapons owned by North Korea are a serious threat. They're right next to a US ally that they've had hostile relations with for decades. They don't need very good missiles to cause huge damage to South Korea, they just need to get the bomb across the border.
Hydrogen bombs are so hardcore that they have a nuclear bomb inside them to power them up.
Well if North Korea keeps this up they're going to be getting a few more hydrogen bombs by express delivery.
[QUOTE=Passing;49286660]The bombs tested at bikini atoll are hydrogen bombs, the nuke explodes and then ignites the hydrogen that then amplifies the explosion.
At bikini they found out accidentally how big an explosion can be, the russians saw this as a threat and built the tzar bomba however its a fraction of its original design and this causes fallout to fall on countries and change some weather for that year.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=DaCommie1;49287940]Well if North Korea keeps this up they're going to be getting a few more hydrogen bombs by express delivery.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't that set off a chain reaction of all their nukes and shit? Or would the explosion not be big enough? Out of curiosity how large if an area does an h-bomb decimate (as in miles and the radius)?
[QUOTE=apierce1289;49288681]Wouldn't that set off a chain reaction of all their nukes and shit? Or would the explosion not be big enough? Out of curiosity how large if an area does an h-bomb decimate (as in miles and the radius)?[/QUOTE]
No, nukes can't go off unless they're supposed to. They have to be primed before they are detonated, dropping it or blowing it up won't do anything to it.
About the claim he has fusion bombs: No. He might potentially be able to produce a fission bomb, but no way in hell does he have H-bombs.
[QUOTE=apierce1289;49288681]Out of curiosity how large if an area does an h-bomb decimate (as in miles and the radius)?[/QUOTE]
As much or as little as you want them to.
[QUOTE=Nebukadnezzer;49288804]About the claim he has fusion bombs: No. He might potentially be able to produce a fission bomb, but no way in hell does he have H-bombs.[/QUOTE]
The fission bomb is the hard part.
[QUOTE=OvB;49288826]As much or as little as you want them to.[/QUOTE]
I don't get it... Don't most nukes have a 20 mile radius? So an h- bomb would be fucking huge like 100 mile radius?
[QUOTE=Magman77;49288841]The fission bomb is the hard part.[/QUOTE]
well how hard can using a nuclear bomb to compress fusible material be anyways, its only one of the fastest moving man-made processes ever
[QUOTE=apierce1289;49289078]I don't get it... Don't most nukes have a 20 mile radius? So an h- bomb would be fucking huge like 100 mile radius?[/QUOTE]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_yield[/url]
H-bombs aren't always bigger. They can be a lot bigger if you want them to be. IIRC the Tsar Bomba, the biggest one ever tested, destroyed things a hundred kilometers out or so. Most thermonuclear warheads are kept within a smaller yield for the job they need to do. And it can be dialed up or down depending on what you want.
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[QUOTE=Sableye;49289163]well how hard can using a nuclear bomb to compress fusible material be anyways, its only one of the fastest moving man-made processes ever[/QUOTE]
I'm not a nuclear physicist, but I'd imagine if your country had the ability to build a successful Primary, you could easily build a secondary with a bit more work. It's not like these things are the cutting edge of technology anymore. This is 1950's tech.
Doing a little looking around, I found this article from the Korea Times about North Korea wanting to detonate an H-bomb. It's from 2013.
[url]https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/02/116_130000.html[/url]
Maybe it's not entirely unreasonable that thermonuclear bombs were the Norths intention all this time. That the underground nukes they did test were just primaries for something much bigger.
[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;49287429]Any nuclear weapons owned by North Korea are a serious threat. They're right next to a US ally that they've had hostile relations with for decades. They don't need very good missiles to cause huge damage to South Korea, they just need to get the bomb across the border.[/QUOTE]
I think the biggest concern would be them selling one off to some less than reputable group than NK randomly nuking Seoul.
[QUOTE=OvB;49289167][url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_yield[/url]
H-bombs aren't always bigger. They can be a lot bigger if you want them to be. IIRC the Tsar Bomba, the biggest one ever tested, destroyed things a hundred kilometers out or so. Most thermonuclear warheads are kept within a smaller yield for the job they need to do. And it can be dialed up or down depending on what you want.
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Not really dialed up, rather the designs scale very easily (for example there is some suggestion that US SLBM and ICBM don't have yield options).
The Pu-239 that goes in the weapon's primary is incredibly expensive. Because of this, nuclear weapons designs have trended towards as small a weapon primary as possible (reportedly US nuclear primaries are 5 to 10kt), and then deriving as much weapon yield from the secondary as possible because the secondary fuel is deuterium and Lithium-6, something that's reportedly only a few thousand dollars a kilogram instead of thousands of dollars per gram.
Hopefully they can save the planet and kill all the dumbasses who are currently destroying it.
[QUOTE=GeeOhDee;49289818]Hopefully they can save the planet and kill all the dumbasses who are currently destroying it.[/QUOTE]
Save the planet using weapons that are guaranteed to fuck up the planet.
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