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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Gday Gary
If they are playing with using other elements to assist in the process, lets just hope they dont make the same mistakes the yanks made when playing with Castle Bravo :-(
Andrew
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Hi Andrew,
Indeed.
Imagine some alternate universe where skimpy swimwear was referred
to as a
pyongyang rather than a
bikini. Doesn't have quite the same
ring about it.
Since the Ivy Mike and Castle Bravo fusion tests were so technically challenging
and expensive to design at the time, it makes the North Korean claim extraordinary.
The worry if it is true is the prospect of further proliferation.
The North Koreans purchased much of their nuclear weapon
design knowledge from the Pakistanis as a result of the infamous
Abdul Qadeer Khan connection.
BBC documentary on Abdul Qadeer Khan here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ZExKS6OW8
For a country that is undergoing a trade embargo, there must be a serious
motivation for North Korea to bring in hard currency through the sale of whatever
new nuclear weapons technology they may have independently developed.