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>they’ve detonated >50kt nukes Are you sure? Didn't they also detonate a buncha TNT to make it look like a nuke blast once? (A weird thing to lie about.)
by dontbenebby 4y ago
>they’ve detonated >50kt nukes
Are you sure? Didn't they also detonate a buncha TNT to make it look like a nuke blast once?
(A weird thing to lie about.)
- hamandcheese 4y ago> A weird thing to lie about. Having the world believe you have nukes is nearly as valuable as actually having them.
- cfraenkel 4y agoMore valuable, in any rational sense of the term. Having them without anyone believing that you have them is more or less useless. Their only purpose is deterrence (unless you have a death wish for your population, and there are easier methods available if that's your 'use case')
- IAmGraydon 4y agoI believe that’s his point.
- dontbenebby 4y ago>Having the world believe you have nukes is nearly as valuable as actually having them. Not if you don’t have even a single aircraft carrier dude. You’ll just get a lot of innocent people hurt in a rightful and overwhelming second strike. Edit: hit send early - my bad… this isn’t Reddit :-)
- mikeyouse 4y agoYes, there’s no doubt. They’ve tested multiple devices, several of them failed but the 2017 one didn’t. We know they bought the designs and materials from Pakistan, we’ve seen enough images of the process and equipment to know they were actively making progress, and we can measure the size of explosions via seismographs. We can measure the craters left behind via satellite images. The wiki article has a good rundown of the evidence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_North_Korean_nuclear_test https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_North_Korean_nuclear_te...
- dontbenebby 4y agoWow they really put EVERYTHING on a wiki now. Thanks!