{"id":63687,"date":"2016-01-06T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63687"},"modified":"2016-01-06T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:48:09","slug":"ndtbf-makes-boom-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63687","title":{"rendered":"ND:tBF Makes Boom-Boom . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . but not with Ms. Kim.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the <em>Dork of NorK\u2019s<\/em> minions <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/01\/06\/outrage-skepticism-greet-north-koreas-claim-hydrogen-bomb-test.html\">detonated another nuclear device yesterday<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Yield was apparently smaller than their previous test about 2 years ago, which was estimated at between 1 and 30 kilotons (with approx 7.9 kilotons being the most probable value).<\/p>\n<p>However, <em>Emmentaler-Boi<\/em> has claimed that this was a <u>thermonuclear<\/u> device.\u00a0 While it\u2019s possible the NORKs managed to put a bit of tritium and deuterium in a fission warhead this time, the observed yield argues strongly against this being a true (Ulam-Teller) thermonuclear device.\u00a0 The primary (e.g., the fission device used to cause thermonuclear reactions) used in a true thermonuclear device is typically on the order of the magnitude seen here; the fusion reactions typically add greatly to the yield.\u00a0 Even a thermonuclear \u201cfizzle\u201d (a device that falls far short of expected yield) typically has a much larger explosive yield than observed in this case (very likely substantially less than 8 kT).<\/p>\n<p>And if this was a test of a boosted device (a device with introduced deuterium and tritium in order to increase explosive yield), well . . . apparently it sucked.\u00a0 Pretty badly.<\/p>\n<p>Assessment.\u00a0 <em>Fatboy Kim<\/em> here appears to be lying through his teeth about the \u201cthermonuclear\u201d part.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone surprised?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . but not with Ms. Kim.\u00a0 (smile) Apparently the Dork of NorK\u2019s minions detonated &hellip; <a title=\"ND:tBF Makes Boom-Boom . . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63687\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ND:tBF Makes Boom-Boom . . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,214,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-north-korea","category-nukes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}