PARIS Another country is weighing in on reports that North Korea has tested a nuclear bomb.A top French official says she's not sure "whether it was a reality or not."
The French defense minister says some kind of blast with an explosive force of about half a kiloton -- or about 500 tons of T-N-T -- went off.
But France's atomic energy commission hasn't confirmed whether it was caused by a nuclear device.
Meanwhile:
China backs tough actions
Oct. 10, 2006. 11:48 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — North Korea must face “some punitive actions” for testing a nuclear device, China’s UN ambassador said Monday, suggesting that Beijing may be willing to impose some form of Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang.
China’s U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told reporters that the council must give a “firm, constructive, appropriate but prudent response” to North Korea.
“I think there has to be some punitive actions but also I think these actions have to be appropriate,” he said.
Wang spoke before a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — plus Japan, to discuss a U.S.-proposed draft Security Council resolution. It would impose an array of sanctions, including a ban on imports of military goods and luxury items, and crack down on illegal financial dealings.
While the U.S. and its allies want a swift, tough resolution, the question has been how much punishment China would allow. China has been North Korea’s major ally and a source of both food and fuel for the desperately poor nation of 23 million.
Wang’s comments suggested that Beijing will at least allow some muscle in the resolution.
The Murrow building, in OK City, blast was 25% of the Korean blast, or so I've read.
ReplyDeleteSo it is easily concievable that the NorKs fired off some chickenshit to simulate the nuclear blast.
Or they've duplicated the Davy Crocket warhead and fired it.
The Crockett scenario is the scariest, by far. More so than a 20 or 200 kiloton device.
Which is why they'd simulate it. It is also the only type device they could simulate. A double edged sword of reality.
No matter where, no matter what, it's always the MSM's fault.
ReplyDeleteIran's hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has blamed the media for rising inflation, after the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged him to control surging prices, a press report said.
"A wave of propaganda created by national and non-national media in the past months has played up the issue of rising prices," Ahmadinejad said in a cabinet meeting, cited by Aftab-e Yazd daily on Tuesday.
These media "have sought to portray the government as incapable as if it had been supposed to reduce the inflation (rate) to zero percent within a year," he said.
"Inflation had always existed and it had even risen by 50 percent under previous governments."
The MSM Conspires to make Abracadbra's Administration look bad. Abracadbra and George W Bush, strange bedfellows. Both objects of the MSM's Grand Conspiracy?
Road as early as the 1950's the US had 1/3 of the B52 fleet in the air at any given time. They were armed with nuclear weapons. The B52 is a B52 because it was designed in 1952. That was one of many systems in SAC. On TAC bases in England, during the 1960's the US had tactical nuclear weapons on F105's and F4's.They were also in Turkey, Italy, Scotland and in Spain.
ReplyDeleteArmy MOS 12E, were, as I recall the lettering, the Atomic Demolition boys.
ReplyDeleteI was a 12B and had been offered the E option, early on. It seemed, to me, incompatable with my life style I wished to become acustommed to. This was back in '78, last century.
The 12Es were, however, stationed in Germany, forward deployed, along with their atomic munitions.
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ReplyDeletecheck this links for US munitions circa '62 - '89 that were backpackable or jeep fired short range 1 kiloton warheads
Davy Croket recoilless rifle nuclear system.
Yep, I had heard that there were 6 inch shells that were nuclear armed. never saw one.
ReplyDeleteThe United States Air Force also developed a project using the W54, the Hughes Electronics AIM-26 Falcon. This was a larger, more powerful version of the AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air missile. It is notable for being the only U.S. guided air-to-air weapon with a nuclear warhead.
W72
After the AIM-26 Falcon was retired, 300 units were rebuilt into an improved configuration with a higher yield and redesignated the W72. These warheads were then used to produce a number of nuclear versions of the AGM-62 Walleye television guided glide bomb system. The W72 variant had a yield of around 600 tons of TNT.
The 300 W72 units were produced between 1970 and 1972, and were in service until 1979.
Documented testing
Stockpiled W54 warheads were test fired at the Nevada Test Site on July 7 and 17, 1962. In Little Feller II (July 7), the warhead was suspended only three feet above the ground and had a yield equivalent to only 22 tons of TNT. In Little Feller I (July 17), the warhead was launched as Davy Crockett device from a stationary 155 millimeter launcher and set to detonate between 20 and 40 feet above the ground around 1.7 miles from the launch point, with a yield of 18 tons. This test was the last atmospheric test at Nevada Test Site and was performed in conjunction with Operation IVY FLATS, a simulated military environment, and was observed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and presidential adviser General Maxwell D. Taylor. Footage of Operation IVY FLATS was declassified by the United States Department of Energy on December 22, 1997. Limited operational details of early SADM projects were published prior to this declassification.
From this linked archive
8 inch artillery, not 6, bad fingers
ReplyDeleteSome Assembly Required
ReplyDeleteBetter Than SPF 90
Breathe normally.
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ReplyDeleteA new threat: remote-controlled toys
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