North Korea's reply to GWB: between 5 and 15 KT ...
I've just about quit counting, the "October Surprises" just keep coming.
Well, at least George W. Bush's peculiar "axis of evil" is coming to fruition. Will Iran be next?
GWB warned the North Koreans that we would "not tolerate their testing a nuclear device." They then responded by testing a nuclear device early yesterday ... measured 3.5 on the Richter Scale in Seoul (at the Seoul National University where I taught thirty years ago). That's estimated to equate to between 5 and 15 kt ... roughly a Hiroshima-sized warhead.
Now what?
Oh yes, Pyongyang did give Beijing (China) twenty minutes notice before the blast, which was in an abandoned (more or less) coal mine. A working nuclear device, plus a tested (maybe not successfully, I think) long range missile still leaves the problem of mating the warhead with the missile's fuel canister/navigation/engine (for thrust), etc., but I'm sure that GWB will warn them that we won't tolerate that too.
Well, it's only 10 October and the gay Republican Party had "come out of the closet," the Gay Old Party (GOP) is arguing among themselves over the revelations in Bob Woodward's new book, we've broken some serious casualty records in Iraq and we've now started a countdown of sorts with North Korea. As for the total number of October Surprises to date ...
As I asked above, what next?
[For the record, I think the Republican party's sexual orientation is its own business and that should not be the basis for anyone's vote in November ... it won't affect mine!]
posted by Dr. Joe @ 8:14 PM
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i wanted to ask you something about it. here in france they are few scientists who were making earth movments measurments and they conclude two possibilities:
- it is a chemical bomb
- or the nuclear bomb failed
so low is the power of the bomb
but if it is success nuclear bombing it is far worst than iran, for two reasons: the dictatorship is the worst on earth (people starve and eat each other some journalists said), and it is a always taking care of making afraid the other.. as well the weapons are more "up to date".
poor usa indeed. you can imagine this world with russia, china, korea and iran... the problems in palestine ... all to be solved. and the other countries are not helping you a lot :(
ah before i forget i can remember the news you said about the deaths in iraq
today the most important newspaper said that it could be 650 000 people killed since the beginning of the was in iraq.
can we still consider godness in human when we can live with that. sorry but i feel the pain of it but in the same time, i am the weakness of all the humanity when a part of it is living a hell.
take a good care,
frederic
le Rouge et le Noir -
Yeh, I'm a softie when it comes to human suffering. That 650,000 was computed using cluster sampling, one of the major subjects of my second Masters Degree -- a good technique for such estimating. It was likely between 600,000 and 700,000 with 2,000 households sampled. Very, very sad.
Joe
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