On April 28, 2017, North Korea launched a single Hwasong-12/KN17 intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) from Pukchang Airfield in South Pyongan Province (the Korean People’s Army’s Air and Anti-Air Force Unit 447 in Ryongak-dong, Sunchon City, to be more precise). That missile failed shortly after launch and crashed in the Chongsin-dong, in North Korean city of Tokchon, causing considerable damage to a complex of industrial or agricultural buildings…
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the allegedly most important and revered guy in the country can’t get a proper
haircut… i’m not holding out much hope for their ballistic missile program.
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“… and my button works.”…Trump admits there’s no threat…the whole reality play, being the actor he is, is to coerce China and Russia into a new ‘Great’ federation built on the bones of the UN. Just as the UN was built on the bones of the League of Nations.
“I think the main message is ‘Make the United Nations great. Not ‘again.’ ‘Make the United Nations great.’” – D Trump
The Norks have seasonally rattled their tiny sabres during the Winter months when the people are boiling shoe leather for sustinence. Traditionally … sypathetic Democraps and wimpy Republicans have shipped food supplies to the Norks in exchange for promises that they will stop developing nuclear weapons. Madeline Halfbright famously clinking champagne glasses with Fat Boys Father after receiving one of those empty promises.
Finally … we have a president who refuses to dance with dangerous despots. Better to wipe them off the planet. Case in point … Islam. Appeasement is ruining our beautiful Western culture. Best to wipe them off the planet. Join the family of man … or get vaporized.
should be just that way…..captcha………impasse
“… and my button works.”
Heh, he hopes it works…
https://www.abqjournal.com/1020217/nuclear-lab-shutdown-endangers-us-arsenal.html
Los Alamos nuclear lab shutdown endangers U.S. arsenal
The lab’s director ordered the shutdown in 2013…During the hiatus, Los Alamos has had to forego 29 planned tests of the safety and reliability of plutonium cores in warheads now deployed atop U.S. submarine-launched and land-based missiles and in bombs carried by aircraft. The facility also hasn’t been able to make new plutonium cores to replace those regularly withdrawn from the nuclear arsenal for testing or to be fit into warheads, which are being modernized for those missiles and bombers at a projected cost of billions of dollars.
So this all happened on Obama’s watch. Maybe it was part of his plan to leave America defenseless against Iran’s weapons.
Even more foolish, to depend upon the doings of men on the other side of the same coin…why would anyone do that, except they want to…? 🙂
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”
― Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
The “bigger button” tweet is a clever application of the concept of “face” in Asian cultures. It reduces Kim’s face in his own culture and at the same time, in western culture, mocking Kim tells ordinary Americans that they don’t have to worry.
“My button works”
The nuclear parts of a warhead have half lives of thousands of years. The chemical parts of the implosion squeeze not so much.
The chemical facets have a shelf life of maybe half a decade or less and then they need replacing or the explosive charge becomes undependable. Every facet of the implosion squeeze must work perfectly or the squeeze doesn’t trigger the plutonium properly to create a critical mass.
The wiring is pure gold cut to precisely the same length to blow every facet of the squeeze at the exact same instant.
The weakness of an implosion squeeze is the trigger’s chemical integrity of the individual HE facets that make up the squeeze effect which makes a sphere of plutonium denser and that triggers the runaway nuclear reaction.
I think FAEs are better weapons than nuclear. They’re cheaper, have a better tactical envelope, and they don’t have the undesirable effect of fallout or radioactive residue in the target zone.
The Americans used FAEs in Afghanistan on Tora Bora. British troops that witnessed the use of these thought they were seeing the use of nuclear weapons. The Russians used FAEs on the city of Grozny in the 2nd Chechen War.