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Cheers, that's very interesting. I just found this too (from 2016), which backs up what you're saying https://www.wired.com/2016/01/science-can-tell-if-north-
by anfractuosity 9y ago
Cheers, that's very interesting.
I just found this too (from 2016), which backs up what you're saying
https://www.wired.com/2016/01/science-can-tell-if-north-koreas-test-was-really-an-h-bomb/ https://www.wired.com/2016/01/science-can-tell-if-north-kore...
It seems according to that, you could only tell from the radionuclides emitted as to what type of bomb it was.
Interestingly there was a 500kt fission bomb -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_King https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_King (but I assume experts must have a particular reason for thinking the DPRK detonation was a type of hydrogen bomb).