#thermonuclear weapon

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℭ𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔢 𝔅𝔯𝔞𝔳𝔬 nuclear test detonated february, 1954

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Perhaps Oppenheimer's mental distress and failure to meet the situation are nowhere so apparent as in the following passages from his dialogues with Robb:

Robb: Did you oppose the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima because of moral scruples?

Oppenheimer: We set forth our—

Robb: I am asking you about 'I', not 'we'.

Oppenheimer: I set forth my anxieties and the arguments on the other side.

Robb: You mean you argued against dropping the bomb?

Oppenheimer: I set forth arguments against dropping it.

Robb: Dropping the atom bomb?

Oppenheimer: Yes, but I did not endorse them.

Robb: You mean, having worked as you put it, in your answer, rather excellently, by night and day for three or four years to develop the atom bomb, you then argued it should not be used?

Oppenheimer: No. I didn't argue that it should not be used. I was asked to say by the Secretary of War what the views of scientists were. I gave the views against and the views for.

Robb: But you supported the dropping of the bomb on Japan, didn't you?

Oppenheimer: What do you mean, support?

Robb: You helped pick the target, didn't you?

Oppenheimer: I did my job, which was the job I was supposed to do. I was not in a policy-making position at Los Alamos. I would have done anything that I was asked to do, including making the bombs a different shape, if I had thought it was technically feasible.

Robb: You would have made the thermonuclear weapon, too, wouldn't you?

Oppenheimer: I couldn't.

Robb: I didn't ask you that, Doctor.

Oppenheimer: I would have worked on it.

Robb: If you had discovered the thermonuclear weapon at Los Alamos, you would have done so. If you could have discovered it you would have done so, wouldn't you?

Oppenheimer: Oh, yes.

"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" - Robert Jungk, translated by James Cleugh

[fresherbrine]

[nuke-nova]

[i-identify-munitions-in-posts]

Not taking the piss this time, I am curious as to what the famed hydrogen bomb is

Thanks for your time, dearest mutual

Munition type: B41 thermonuclear bomb (maximum blast yield: 25 megatons TNT equivalent; service timeframe: 1960–1976)

[political-affairs]

North Korea Celebrates Hydrogen Bomb Test

On 6 January 2016 at 10:00:01 UTC+08:30, North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test at its Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, approximately 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Kilju City in Kilju County. The United States Geological Service reported a 5.1 magnitude earthquake from the location; the China Earthquake Networks Center reported the magnitude as 4.9. 

North Korean media made announcements that the regime had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, which had been claimed to have existed the month before the test was carried out.  However, third-party experts, as well as officials and agencies in South Korea, doubted North Korea's claims, and contend that the device was more likely to have been a fission bomb such as a boosted fission weapon.  Such weapons use hydrogen fusion to produce smaller, lighter warheads suitable for arming a delivery device such as a missile, rather than to attain the destructive power of a true hydrogen bomb. 

Background 

North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK) had previously conducted three underground nuclear tests in 2006, 2009, and 2013, drawing sanctions from the United Nations Security Council. The presidents of the United States and South Korea urged North Korea to rejoin the six-party talks in October 2015. The presidents also warned North Korea against a fourth nuclear test. 

In December 2015, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un suggested that the country had the capacity to launch a hydrogen bomb, a device of considerably more power than conventional atomic bombs used in previous tests.  The remark was met with skepticism from the White House and South Korean officials. In a New Year's Day speech, Kim Jong-un warned that provocation from "invasive outsiders" would be met with a "holy war of justice".

North Korean claims 

The North Korean government described the test as a "complete success"  and characterized it as self-defense against the United States. Korean Central Television (KCTV), the North Korean state-owned media channel, said that "the U.S. has gathered forces hostile to [the] DPRK and raised a slanderous human rights issue to hinder [the] DPRK’s improvement. It is [therefore] just to have [an] H-bomb as self-defense against the U.S. having numerous and humongous nuclear weapons. The DPRK's fate must not be protected by any forces but [the] DPRK itself." Ri Chun-hee, the television news anchor who announced the deaths of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, emerged from retirement to announce the H-bomb test to both the domestic and international audience.

[political-affairs]

Developments in North Korea's nuclear ambitions

 A look at North Korea's firepower, as the country says it has successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear bomb.  

[booksandwords]

Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?

Vic Deakins (John Travolta), Broken Arrow One of the ultimate classic lines. Largely in the delivery.