On Sunday, North Korea tested its most powerful nuclear bomb yet, detonating a device that caused a 6.3 magnitude tremor.
The weapon’s sheer power has caused alarm but the fact that Pyongyang is claiming it can be fitted inside an intercontinental ballistic missile is sending shockwaves through Asia and beyond.
Using data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Statista’s Niall McCarthy presents the following infographic provides an overview of the strength of all North Korean nuclear tests since 2006.
You will find more statistics at Statista
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Sunday’s detonation was estimated to have been 100 kilotons or more, far more powerful than previous tests and the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. How does it compare with the warheads inside current U.S. and Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles?
According to the Economist, the U.S. Trident and Russian SS ballistic missiles have a yield of 455 and 800 kilotons respectively.
Mat 24:21-22: “because it will be a time of great trouble. There will be more trouble than has ever happened since the beginning of the world. And nothing as bad as that will ever happen again. But God has decided to make that terrible time short. If it were not made short, no one would continue living. But God will make that time short to help the people he has chosen.” -ERV
A ballistic missile is just that, a projectile following a pre-determined path. It took the US and USSR a generation to develop ‘MARV’ or maneuverable warheads.
Trying to hit a city thousands of miles away with a ballistic projectile is no easy thing one reason why the first ICBMs had multi-megaton H-bombs affixed to them. If your accuracy was only within a few miles of the target a multi megaton bomb compensated for that. As the CEP or circular error probability improved atomic yields could be reduced still destroy a given target. MIRV and MARV multiplied the power of each launch vehicle.
We can’t sit around and let North Korea develop this technology that would allow a single North Korean missile to hit San Francisco, San Jose , Oakland and Sacramento and another to take out the cities of Southern California.
Nukes are sort of like hand grenades, just on a somewhat larger scale.
Close is usually good enough.
Isn’t the real NK nuclear threat one warhead at 300 miles up to spark a continental EMP over the US?