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2004-05-17 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-05-17 11:44:54 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Kim Jong-Il wants the world to know that he can make an earthquake. However he won't leap tall buildings at a single bound because he's afraid of heights. (Remember, won't fly in a airplane)

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-17 11:48:36 AM|| 2004-05-17 11:48:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Forgive my ignorance, but how big would a fissle be?

Posted by DG 2004-05-17 1:33:32 PM|| 2004-05-17 1:33:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry, the term is fizzle as in a nuclear weapon that has only the trigger exploding.

Posted by DG 2004-05-17 1:39:02 PM|| 2004-05-17 1:39:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 As I recall from a Tom Clancy novel where the nuke fizzled at Denver stadium, there wasn't much of a crater and no shock wave. There was sufficient nuetron flux to fry the 70,000 attendees at the game, but a guy in a Brinks truck was protected by being behind bags of nickels!
In that ficticious case the main charge did go, but it discharged over too long of a time period because the bad guys failed to renew the "booster".

Posted by Craig 2004-05-17 4:04:48 PM|| 2004-05-17 4:04:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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