re: #37 goddamnedfrank

There’s a wide spectrum of deliverability. Since the first successful test it’s been within their capabilities to smuggle a weapon inside a third party flagged container ship and detonate it in a US port.

The tests were not failures and the last one is estimated to be at least 100 Kt yield. Also, if their designs aren’t all that efficient that just means they’re extra dirty, which isn’t exactly comforting.

Well, 6-8 kT like tests 3,4, and 5 are failures. If they got 100 kT from a two-stage device in the last test, that’s really a failure, too. If their designs aren’t all that efficient that means they’re extra clean—less fission products. It probably also means they’re extra heavy. I’ll take some convincing that they’ve ever had a deliverable weapon by any means they have available.