Breaking: U.S. says air samples confirm NK conducted nuclear test.

[Contrary1]

Well, at least Chimpie will have an excuse not to go to Vietnam...again.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. this is two day old news. n/t

[jobycom]

2. That would explain why it was just released a few minutes ago. nt

[krispos42]

3. MSNBC is running this as a breaking news story

Now I guess it's ultra-confirmed.

Also, the bomb was less than one kiloton.

[Contrary1]

4. Didn't know that...

I've been nursing a bum ankle the last few days and haven't kept up with the news.

MSNBC ought to update their home page.

[Rude Horner]

6. Take care

Hope you're back on your feet soon. :hi:

[puffthemagicdragon]

7. not really, broke on my local news this morning n/t

[progressivebydesign]

10. it IS two day old news. I read it a few days ago.

Guess they thought it got lost in the news dump over the weekend. Odd how only the US got a positive reading... not the numerous other countries that reported the day or two before.

[bananas]

11. Not quite - the earlier reports said it wouldn't be confirmed until monday

something about preliminary results.

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[OldSiouxWarrior]

14. A nuke blast produces decay particles.

Just releasing uranium won't work. Take off the tin foil hat.

[BrotherBuzz]

16. Maybe that food is not forthcoming from the US

and North Korea just put the world on notice that they can build 'suitcase bombs', a very marketable item that bad people wearing dark glasses and trench coats with deep pockets would love to acquire to further their cause. How's that for a tinfoil hoax idea?

[Sirveri]

18. No they didn't.

First off, we're still not sure if this was an actual nuclear explosion.
Second, we don't even know if the air samples are accurate in this case since we are the only people who have detected a positive.
Third, just detonating a nuclear device does not instantly give you the ability to miniaturize it to the point where you can put it into a suitcase or backpack. Miniaturization is one reason our ICBM's have 12 to 16 warheads a piece instead of one. I don't think NK has developed MIRV technology yet.

[BrotherBuzz]

19. Maybe NK skipped page one and knocked off their own version of our SADM

The MK 54 has a yield from .01 to 1.0 kiloton, and it's not really miniaturized, it weighs 160 pounds.

[Sirveri]

21. Only 160 lbs. Perfect for my backpack.

It's great for a truck bomb though. Though it would probably only level a single city block. The big problem with nuclear bombs is how easily they can be detected with a simple neutron detector. We of course don't use them to inspect freight in our ports, or have much of any port security still. So they could easily slip one in. But I'm still not convinced that this event was anything more than a fizzle, if we got any radiation off it, then it was because they actually managed to start a minor chain reaction but didn't get the explosive geometry right or the correct purity or calculate their nuclear physics parameters correctly to cause it to actually go past critical mass. They might have made it slightly supercritical, but not enough to really get the bomb fired up. Probably need better detonators.

[MsKandice01]

8. This info was released by Negroponte's office...

Any time I hear that name, my bullshit meter goes haywire, whether there's some truth to it or not.

[bdamomma]

17. Mr. Death Squad man, Negroponte, I do not trust him either.

[progressivebydesign]

9. Odd.. now ONLY the U.S. samples showed radioactivity.

If you find all of the articles from the past week, ONLY the U.S. said that their plane found radioactivity... odd, because Japan and China's samples right after did not find it. Only the AMERICAN plane... and well.. gosh.. Negroponte and Bolton, I SOOO believe them. don't you? :sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

13. I posted a few days ago-article said positive--Now official with Negropont

e making the big announcement.

[confludemocrat]

15. So the Bush admin lie is now an official Bush admin lie

I read wha the above poster said, that no radiation had detected. BTW, why didn't the US/UN use this detection method for Iraq?

[rodeodance]

12. This is confirmation of a failed Bush nuclear proliferation Policy!

[tyedyeto]

20. Let's see: first it was yes, then no, then yes then no........

Now it's a 'confirmed yes? Can anyone say 'flip-flop'?

I, for one, don't believe anything I've heard from the * admin about this test.