Sept.11, 2004...
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:47 am
Nuclear Test in North Korea?
By bjlhct in News
Tue Sep 14, 2004 at 05:36:59 AM EST
Tags: News (all tags)
On September 11, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported a huge blast and a 2.5 mile diameter mushroom cloud in North Korea 6 miles southwest of Yongjori Missile Base...on Thursday.
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Just recently, there have been reports that the Bush administration had received intelligence indicating preparations for a nuclear test, in accordance with the traditional extravagant military demonstrations on the 56th anniversary of North Korea's founding.
Nuclear tests leave many telltale signs. The explosion can be seen on seismographs around the world. Fallout can be detected with geiger counters hundreds of miles away from the test. For a few thousand dollars, one can order a 1-meter resolution satellite image of a resultant cloud, and the military can do much better. Indeed the US military has been able to detect nuclear tests in real time since early in the Cold War, and it has only gotten better at it since then.
In light of this, the reports that we have gotten seem very suspicious. Very suspicious indeed. Condoleeza Rice has said that "further analysis" is being done and suggested that the mushroom cloud was created by a forest fire. Forest fires can create mushroom clouds, but the Bush administration should have noticed the event without being told about it and should know - no, does know - with certainty whether or not this blast was nuclear.
North Korea and China have no comment.
The lack of positive or negative reports on seismic data and radiation readings is suspicious indeed. Some college seismographs show an anomaly at the time in question. The USGS seismic survey site is now back up.
Between the timing and the evidence, it seems clear that there was a nuclear test. Yet the Bush administration is reporting that though they do not know what it was, they think it was not a nuclear test. Rice's suggestion of a forest fire, however, is improbable enough to dismiss. Something fishy is going on.
By bjlhct in News
Tue Sep 14, 2004 at 05:36:59 AM EST
Tags: News (all tags)
On September 11, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported a huge blast and a 2.5 mile diameter mushroom cloud in North Korea 6 miles southwest of Yongjori Missile Base...on Thursday.
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Just recently, there have been reports that the Bush administration had received intelligence indicating preparations for a nuclear test, in accordance with the traditional extravagant military demonstrations on the 56th anniversary of North Korea's founding.
Nuclear tests leave many telltale signs. The explosion can be seen on seismographs around the world. Fallout can be detected with geiger counters hundreds of miles away from the test. For a few thousand dollars, one can order a 1-meter resolution satellite image of a resultant cloud, and the military can do much better. Indeed the US military has been able to detect nuclear tests in real time since early in the Cold War, and it has only gotten better at it since then.
In light of this, the reports that we have gotten seem very suspicious. Very suspicious indeed. Condoleeza Rice has said that "further analysis" is being done and suggested that the mushroom cloud was created by a forest fire. Forest fires can create mushroom clouds, but the Bush administration should have noticed the event without being told about it and should know - no, does know - with certainty whether or not this blast was nuclear.
North Korea and China have no comment.
The lack of positive or negative reports on seismic data and radiation readings is suspicious indeed. Some college seismographs show an anomaly at the time in question. The USGS seismic survey site is now back up.
Between the timing and the evidence, it seems clear that there was a nuclear test. Yet the Bush administration is reporting that though they do not know what it was, they think it was not a nuclear test. Rice's suggestion of a forest fire, however, is improbable enough to dismiss. Something fishy is going on.