North Korea Tries to Join the Big Boy Club
According to Drudge’s sources the nuclear testing by North Korea wasn’t nuclear at all.
GERTZ: U.S. doubts Korean test was nuclear; Readings fall short of atomic explosion… MORE…
U.S. intelligence agencies say, based on preliminary indications, that North Korea did not produce its first nuclear blast yesterday, WASHINGTON TIMES star reporter Bill Gertz is set to report in Tuesday editions.
U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used to create a chain reaction in a plutonium-based device went off, but that the blast’s readings were shy of a typical nuclear detonation.
The underground explosion, which Pyongyang dubbed a historic nuclear test, is thought to have been the equivalent of several hundred tons of TNT, far short of the several thousand tons of TNT, or kilotons, that are signs of a nuclear blast, the official said. Developing…
Original story from WashingtonTimes

Nobody has left a comment!