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North Korea nuclear test - Fizz, not pop
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the North Korean bomb is now estimated at 4% of the power of the Hiroshima bomb. What this means, kids, is that the nuke test was a failure. They didn't hold the plutonium together and the bomb started breaking up before a full chain reaction started.
2 bomb types: Uranium and Plutonium.
Uranium: Easier to make a bomb, but very difficult to make bomb grade material.
Plutonium: Easier to make and separate the material, much more difficult to make a bomb work.
Little boy was a uranium bomb. It was approximately 16 kilotons.
Trinity and Fat Man were plutonium bombs. Trinity was better than 90% conversion. They both were approximately 20 kilotons.
This means that the North Korean test had under 3% conversion.
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James
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Red-beard for President, 2020
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