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Blast May Be Only A Partial Success, Experts Say, NY Times
 









Excerpts: Throughout history, the first detonations of aspiring nuclear powers
have tended to pack the destructive power of 10,000 to 60,000 tons (...)  of
conventional high explosives.  But the strength of the North Korean test appears
to have been a small fraction of that: around a kiloton or less, according to
scientists monitoring the global arrays of seismometers that detect faint
trembles in the earth from distant blasts. (...)  "If the lower-yield estimates
are valid, then it's not a militarized system, but also not something a
terrorist would reject."Editor's Note: One interpretation of the low yield could
also be the changing target market: One kiloton would be the equivalent of about
50 truck bombs that can be packed into a single SUV. That seems to be an ideal
weapon for terrorists.
Source: Blast May Be Only A Partial Success, Experts Say[
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/world/asia/10detect.html ], William J. Broad,
Mark Mazzetti, NYTimes, 06/10/10

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