USGS says 4.2, and the Russian defense ministry estimates the blast at 5-15 kilotons.
This was the big topic on Coast to Coast AM last night; given the difficulties that NK has had with its ballistic missile program lately, one of the panel suggested that a suicide mission aboard a mini submarine might be the delivery method, should NK want to use one.
Isn't the whole point of having nukes that you can never actually use them? They're the great deterrant, or something like that. Then again, I wouldn't put it past Kim Jong "Mr Ronrey" Il to try something monumentally stupid like actually firing one.
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Date: 2006-10-09 06:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-09 12:46 pm (UTC)This was the big topic on Coast to Coast AM last night; given the difficulties that NK has had with its ballistic missile program lately, one of the panel suggested that a suicide mission aboard a mini submarine might be the delivery method, should NK want to use one.
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Date: 2006-10-09 11:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-09 12:47 pm (UTC)Damn them all.
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Date: 2006-10-09 07:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-09 07:52 pm (UTC)North Korea's rulership is sufficiently bugnuts to use one of the things, I believe. The nation honestly has nothing to lose.