They've Got The Bomb, Okay?

It would appear North Korea has tested a functioning H-Bomb according to their own reports.

#BREAKING: North Korea says conducted 'successful' hydrogen bomb test
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) January 6, 2016

Look, I know you might have some doubts, but this lady told me and she wouldn't lie to me, would she?

#DPRK TV announcer: Under Kim Jong Un’s guidance a miniaturized H-bomb test was a complete success. pic.twitter.com/HvE3ulasin
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) January 6, 2016

Posted by: BenK at 10:32 PM

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1 Balls.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 05, 2016 10:34 PM (HalrA)

2 of course they do

next up

Iran

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 05, 2016 10:34 PM (7RXcs)

3 Nuke them now before they nuke us.

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:34 PM (MQEz6)

4 Unpossible; President Clinton made a deal with them so they wouldn't develop nukes. Just like Barky's deal with Iran.

Posted by: PabloD at January 05, 2016 10:34 PM (5CsS+)

5 Hey NK, let's make a deal!

Posted by: RGallegos at January 05, 2016 10:35 PM (49Jfq)

6 Yeah, that's not a problem. They won't sell the things to just anybody. And plus, they are a very stable and open society that doesn't go in for sabre rattling.

Posted by: goon at January 05, 2016 10:35 PM (gy5kE)

7 Nuke them now before they nuke us.
Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:34 PM (MQEz6)

Dick Nixon, before Nixon dicks you?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (DUoqb)

8 Better them than the Irani.....oh, crap.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (EzgxV)

9 2016 just took 2015's sammich and stomped on it.

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (MQEz6)

10 Want to play a game?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (/tuJf)

11 Splendid.

Just fcuking splendid.

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (KCxzN)

12 As Sven and I were discussing in the previous thread, if you haven't done it, read Forstchen's One Second After.

Then start digging your bunker.

Posted by: Country Singer at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (GUBah)

13 Thank you Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright.

Your "peace" will kill us.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (KQTmr)

14 President Clinton made a deal with them so they wouldn't develop nukes. Just like Barky's deal with Iran.
Posted by: PabloD at January 05, 2016 10:34 PM (5CsS+)

Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (DUoqb)

15 Hope it was worth it for you two Clintons.

Posted by: ChocoCheese at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (OvUux)

16 So cool.

Posted by: Guy who thinks he's on a thread about a new flavor of ice cream at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (/ciMI)

17 It wasn't a bomb bomb.

Posted by: Whoopi Cushion at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (FkBIv)

18 I bet South Korea and Japan speed up their rapprochement.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 05, 2016 10:36 PM (u5gzz)

19 WTF? A miniaturized H-bomb??? Why?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2016 10:37 PM (EzgxV)

20 Repub candidates should remind people about the Clinton/North Korea nuclear deal and how that worked out for us.

Posted by: Sam at January 05, 2016 10:37 PM (sO6CM)

21 Somebody call Gary Johnston, Stat!

Posted by: Spotswoode at January 05, 2016 10:37 PM (8aOqE)

22 Well that's just fantastic

Posted by: Grandmalcaesar at January 05, 2016 10:37 PM (xSA6S)

23 https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/655083877048954880

Wonderful, just fucking wonderful

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (voOPb)

24 Folks...

H Bomb.... not just a standard Fission Bomb...

Much bigger potential booms...

This is a big deal.

Posted by: BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (f7rv6)

25 Repub candidates should remind people about the Clinton/North Korea nuclear deal and how that worked out for us.
Posted by: Sam at January 05, 2016 10:37 PM (sO6CM)

As if the 52% would care?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (DUoqb)

26 WTF? A miniaturized H-bomb??? Why?
Posted by: cthulhu

So the North Korean Maxwell Smart can put it in his shoe.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (FkBIv)

27 >>Repub candidates should remind people about the Clinton/North Korea nuclear deal and how that worked out for us.

Word. Any Republican who isn't pounding on Clinton and Obama over this tomorrow should just go home.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (/tuJf)

28 That announcer? I'd hit it.

Posted by: Crowbar at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (RvSAg)

29 *fizzle*

Posted by: my hope for the Norks at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (/ciMI)

30 "This is a big deal."

Yes it is.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 05, 2016 10:39 PM (u5gzz)

31 That announcer? I'd hit it.
Posted by: Crowbar at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (RvSAg)

Where are her arms?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:39 PM (DUoqb)

32 Did Hillary forget the reset button with North Korea?,

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2016 10:39 PM (voOPb)

33 Will this affect getting a new iPhone?

Posted by: LIV at January 05, 2016 10:39 PM (/ciMI)

34 Allo, 'rons

I think Cruz' "lawyers wading the Rio Grande" is the second best ad I've ever seen.

The best was John Thune's "In his own words" ad, in which he just spliced together Daschle's most appalling liberal excretions, & let it roll, roll, roll.

Posted by: mnwxyz at January 05, 2016 10:40 PM (NiHAc)

35 I've just become significantly less concerned about my retirement savings.

Gotta look for that silver lining.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 05, 2016 10:40 PM (/tuJf)

36 The next mass executions should be spectacular.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at January 05, 2016 10:40 PM (w705I)

37 Nah, lady looks totally credible and non-biased.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 10:40 PM (8ltB7)

38 Ohhhh the world will condemn this?

Wow scary

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:40 PM (DUoqb)

39 We have nothing to fear from a nuclear North Korea. Or a nuclear Iran. Or a nuclear Saudi Arabia. Or a nuclear ISIS.

In fact, as long as Barack Obama is president, there is nothing to fear.

Except guns.
And Republicans.
And white men.
And microaggressions.

Posted by: John Reach Across the Aisle McCain at January 05, 2016 10:40 PM (9JJgN)

40 H bomb? That's, like, the eight most powerful bomb, right? A, B, C, etc.? Why is this a big deal?

Posted by: LIV at January 05, 2016 10:40 PM (/ciMI)

41 It's just a shame that a nice country like that doesn't have a two-shot SLBM system in the works. And they really ought to get themselves some fanatics, just to protect themselves from aggression.

Posted by: goon at January 05, 2016 10:40 PM (gy5kE)

42 a miniaturized H-bomb test was a complete success

North Koreans have an advantage at this with their tiny hands.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 05, 2016 10:41 PM (rwI+c)

43 Glock bad

Nukes good?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:41 PM (DUoqb)

44
Don't worry, Barry will issue and Executive Order to tell North Korea to play nice

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 05, 2016 10:41 PM (45oDG)

45 So Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei and any other members of the far east 4 torquebolt crew, just placed an order for a shitload of PAC-3/THAADs and quietly checked the bolts on their non-existance/un-assembled nucs.

Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2016 10:41 PM (fBkaR)

46 go long on EMP futures....

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 05, 2016 10:42 PM (g8Hfr)

47 "Will this affect getting a new iPhone?"

Thermonuclear conflict on the border of China?

Yeah, might.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 10:42 PM (8ltB7)

48
Fishboone - Party At Ground Zero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLm7Y90L1G4

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 10:42 PM (kdS6q)

49 Ohhhh the world will condemn this?

Wow scary

We are firing up the hashtags!

#pleasedontnukeus

Posted by: State Department Boffins at January 05, 2016 10:42 PM (1xUj/)

50 Hans Blix you've failed us.

Posted by: Film Actors Guild at January 05, 2016 10:42 PM (RvSAg)

51 There used to be a saying: Many Atom Bombs makes you a Power, one Atom Bomb makes you a Target.

Apparently this is not operative anymore.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 05, 2016 10:42 PM (rwI+c)

52 Japan was getting uppity, so I gave the North Koreans something to balance out the region.

Posted by: Pres'nt Obama at January 05, 2016 10:42 PM (/ciMI)

53 All this makes Fredo look like the baffoon he is, but who will notice?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:43 PM (DUoqb)

54 19 WTF? A miniaturized H-bomb??? Why?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2016 10:37 PM (EzgxV)

To kill millions of midgets?

Posted by: rickl at January 05, 2016 10:43 PM (sdi6R)

55 So that's why the Norks brought that touring babe band back home.

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:43 PM (MQEz6)

56 Zero will get a crack special ops PR team working on it immediately.

Posted by: mnwxyz at January 05, 2016 10:43 PM (NiHAc)

57 H bomb? That's, like, the eight most powerful bomb, right? A, B, C, etc.? Why is this a big deal?

Posted by: LIV at January 05, 2016 10:40 PM (/ciMI)

You're giving them too much credit for knowing the alphabet

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 05, 2016 10:43 PM (45oDG)

58 #BringBackOurSilhouettes

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 05, 2016 10:43 PM (/ciMI)

59
Maybe Barry will hold a press conference tomorrow and weep over this too

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 05, 2016 10:44 PM (45oDG)

60 Hey how's that Korean War truce looking now?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:44 PM (DUoqb)

61 eman - you can bet that the after test party rocks

Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2016 10:44 PM (fBkaR)

62 #ReconstituteOurAtoms

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 05, 2016 10:45 PM (/ciMI)

63 you can bet that the after test party rocks
Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2016 10:44 PM (fBkaR)

yeah probably eating salted tree bark and drinking mule piss

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:45 PM (DUoqb)

64 I'm kind-o' thinkin' that a miniaturized H-bomb might be a lot like an H-bomb that leaked all its heavy hydrogen out before the nuke ignition charge went off....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2016 10:45 PM (EzgxV)

65
M 5.1 - 20km ENE of Sungjibaegam, North Korea

Time 2016-01-06 01:30:02 UTC
Location 41.309°N 129.034°E
Depth 10.0 km

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10004bnm#general_summary

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 10:45 PM (kdS6q)

66 Activate the JamesTaylorTron!!

Set it for Maximum Gargle!!

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:45 PM (MQEz6)

67 It's a good thing that the Norks and Iran have only been collaborating on ballistic missile technology and not nuclear technology or we might have been in trouble.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 05, 2016 10:45 PM (/tuJf)

68 For the record, Trump doesn't understand the nuclear triad. /s

Posted by: ChocoCheese at January 05, 2016 10:46 PM (OvUux)

69 Double crystal meth rations for everybody!

Posted by: Kim Jong Un at January 05, 2016 10:46 PM (/ciMI)

70 #GimmeBackMyNeutrons

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 05, 2016 10:46 PM (zHKuc)

71 The future's so bright....

Posted by: Timbuk3 at January 05, 2016 10:46 PM (/ciMI)

72 So they blew something up other than themselves this time?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 05, 2016 10:46 PM (39g3+)

73 Bush's fault. Because Bush. Indisputable.

Posted by: Obaminions at January 05, 2016 10:47 PM (8aOqE)

74 The announcer is somebody's mom and she make awesome kimchi and she likes to strangle toddlers before hitting the sack.

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:47 PM (MQEz6)

75 I've never been so happy to live east of the Rockies.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 05, 2016 10:47 PM (rwI+c)

76 "Hey how's that Korean War truce looking now?"

I remember seeing a video of NK soldiers training a couple of years ago. Armed with Mosins and WW2 era Russian artillery.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 10:47 PM (8ltB7)

77 Fuck you Hans Brix!

Hahahahahahaha!

Posted by: Zombie Kim Il Sung at January 05, 2016 10:47 PM (u5gzz)

78 Don't nuke me blo.

Posted by: Miniature Korean at January 05, 2016 10:48 PM (FkBIv)

79 Can we bomb those Yalu River bridges now?

Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2016 10:48 PM (fBkaR)

80 Wipe us off the face of map?

Like with a cloth?

Posted by: Hillary Rodham Clinton at January 05, 2016 10:48 PM (KQTmr)

81 A miniaturized H-bomb?

Hillary running for president?

Oh my God...it's a snuke!

Posted by: Eric Cartman at January 05, 2016 10:48 PM (2qN+3)

82 Well, you know what they say.

SMOD works in mysterious ways.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 05, 2016 10:49 PM (NeFrd)

83 #splody_don't

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 05, 2016 10:49 PM (KCxzN)

84 >>I remember seeing a video of NK soldiers training a couple of years ago. Armed with Mosins and WW2 era Russian artillery.

And soon miniature H-bombs. Sort of changes the odds a bit.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 05, 2016 10:49 PM (/tuJf)

85 Fuck You, I'm not going there!

Posted by: Snuke Sniffing Pig at January 05, 2016 10:49 PM (8aOqE)

86 The previous 5.1 richter scale was only 1,000 tons equivalent or so? How does this same energy level make it an H bomb? Is there a way to tell if it was fission or fusion?

Posted by: A.Smythers, A Celt at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (ugz3A)

87 Folks...

H Bomb.... not just a standard Fission Bomb...

Much bigger potential booms...

Bingo!

This is a big deal.

Posted by: BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (f7rv6)

If the Norks aren't lying .. which I sorta doubt. But you are correct - "The Bomb" is a run-of-the-mill fission bomb, not an H-Bomb.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (zc3Db)

88 Arec Balren.

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (MQEz6)

89 In related news Kim Jong-un made thirty seven holes in one on his way to a record breaking 82 under par performance at the North Korean Open.

Posted by: cm9000 at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (2TUVm)

90 Korean food creates fusion...in my colon.

Speaking of which, any sign of Colin Powell? He and Joe Biden must be hidden away in the Washington Monument.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (zHKuc)

91 71 The future's so bright....
Posted by: Timbuk3 at January 05, 2016 10:46 PM (/

I've got to wear shades.........
Welcome to the working world

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (voOPb)

92 Obama probably gave it to them.

Posted by: Lauren at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (bYGAR)

93
Martyn Williams

Here's the English bulletin from KCNA, North Korea's central news agency

https://twitter.com/martyn_williams/status/684583158340169728

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (kdS6q)

94 Listen, 'rons

Don't get on your high horse. Don't get all wee-wee'd up. Remember, slavery.. the trail of tears. We're better than that. That's not who we are. This is a teachable moment.

(Did I miss any of them?)

Posted by: mnwxyz at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (NiHAc)

95 What a day!

20 holes in one on an 18 hole course and a successful H bomb test!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (hlMPp)

96 Alert the X-wing pilots--they'll take out this superweapon by the end of the movie.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (/ciMI)

97 China needs to jerk their chain.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (rwI+c)

98 That Fishbone video needs to go into the Thread.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (RbkZc)

99 Seems like a puny H-bomb.

Maybe they dialed it to "pussy"

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (MQEz6)

100 After President Fredo, we need Micheal Corleone for our next President -- to settle some Family business.....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (EzgxV)

101 I read some analysis on some smart military blog (not this one) that the Norks had a metric shit-ton of medium range missles they could bring to bear on Seoul, and about three days worth of ammo and gas for their troops.

So I guess their agressive plan is to win in three days or go nuke.

But in reality they are going to use nukes as blackmail/ I mean leverage, in negotiations for more stuff.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (kKHcp)

102 Can we send John Kerry & James Taylor?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (voOPb)

103 (Did I miss any of them?)

Ahem.

Posted by: The Crusades at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (rwI+c)

104 My son is stationed in S. Korea. This makes my stomach turn.

Posted by: small town girl no longer banned! at January 05, 2016 10:52 PM (Yzubb)

105 Too good to wait until the ONT.

From our crazy friends at InfoWars.

Obama Bans Himself From Buying Guns? Shrink Suggests President Mentally IllPresident "irrational and erratic and perhaps not exactly what we might want to deem sane," says psychologist

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 05, 2016 10:52 PM (9JJgN)

106 Don't get on your high horse. Don't get all wee-wee'd up. Remember, slavery.. the trail of tears. We're better than that. That's not who we are. This is a teachable moment.

(Did I miss any of them?)

Posted by: mnwxyz

I'm sorry, someone was preventing you from being clear--could you repeat that?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 05, 2016 10:52 PM (/ciMI)

107 (Did I miss any of them?)

Ahem

Posted by: The British in Malaya in the Fifties at January 05, 2016 10:52 PM (KCxzN)

108 North Korea is a tiny country.

Posted by: Barry McShitFuck, The Smartest Person in the World at January 05, 2016 10:52 PM (9Du4t)

109 Listen, 'rons

Don't get on your high horse. Don't get all wee-wee'd up. Remember, slavery.. the trail of tears. We're better than that. That's not who we are. This is a teachable moment.

(Did I miss any of them?)

Posted by: mnwxyz at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (NiHAc)

Yes.... its all Congresses fault because the won't pass bill X...

Posted by: BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at January 05, 2016 10:53 PM (f7rv6)

110 Look, I know you might have some doubts, but this lady told me and she wouldn't lie to me, would she?

Would she be interested in a job with us?

Posted by: This is CNN at January 05, 2016 10:53 PM (bEbHs)

111 China needs to jerk their chain.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!

They might go blind.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 05, 2016 10:53 PM (FkBIv)

112 Don't worry I hear North Korea has really strict gun control laws

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:53 PM (DUoqb)

113 104
My son is stationed in S. Korea. This makes my stomach turn.
---
Yeah, my guess is that they're not going to want to nuke S. Korea. They'll want to nuke whoever China wants them to nuke.

/yeah, think about that for a moment...

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 05, 2016 10:53 PM (9JJgN)

114 They are the JV team.

Posted by: Barky at January 05, 2016 10:53 PM (OLNwX)

115 I remember seeing a video of NK soldiers training a couple of years ago. Armed with Mosins and WW2 era Russian artillery.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 10:47 PM (8ltB7)

Come see me in Sevastopol.

Posted by: Lyudmila Pavlichenko at January 05, 2016 10:53 PM (OvUux)

116 Happy birthday to the ground!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 05, 2016 10:53 PM (/ciMI)

117 @94

We are not blue states or red states but purple states
If you like your health insurance you can keep your health insurance

Want more?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2016 10:54 PM (voOPb)

118 89
In related news Kim Jong-un made thirty seven holes in one on his way to
a record breaking 82 under par performance at the North Korean Open.

Posted by: cm9000 at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (2TUVm)

Exactly.
Kim is a buffoon who regularly spouts outrageous BS so the world doesn't forget about him. Reminds me of a presidential candidate...let's see...who is that guy again?

Posted by: Sixkiller at January 05, 2016 10:54 PM (szEUw)

119 So it was an h bomb and not an H bomb?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 05, 2016 10:54 PM (FkBIv)

120 Hey, aren't North Korean missiles named "No Dong" missiles?

How ironic considering we have a No Dong president.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 05, 2016 10:54 PM (KQTmr)

121 North Korea is Best Korea!

Posted by: furious at January 05, 2016 10:55 PM (8lw4l)

122 Posted by: Lauren at January 05, 2016 10:50 PM (bYGAR)

Yep. Still adoring you. Incidentally you're right.

Posted by: Mega at January 05, 2016 10:55 PM (9Du4t)

123 "Seems like a puny H-bomb. "

It's probably fairly dirty and unreliable.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 10:55 PM (8ltB7)

124 The Japanese just spit their sake across the table.

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:55 PM (MQEz6)

125 Dammit. Late on the golf joke.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 05, 2016 10:55 PM (hlMPp)

126 https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/655083877048954880

Well, to be fair, I don't think there was a red line involved here so SCOAMF is off da hook!!!

Posted by: lindafell de spair at January 05, 2016 10:55 PM (xVgrA)

127 H-Bomb? Kim Jong Un ith a puthy.

Posted by: Mike Tyson at January 05, 2016 10:55 PM (/ciMI)

128 So this is the Nood Bomb thread but not starring Don Adams.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2016 10:56 PM (DLIIY)

129 So I guess their agressive plan is to win in three days or go nuke.

But in reality they are going to use nukes as blackmail/ I mean leverage, in negotiations for more stuff.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 05, 2016 10:51 PM (kKHcp)

Nukes are the ultimate defensive weapon... you hold that nuclear Ace in your hand, and even if you lose the conventional ground war, no one is going to invade you...

Exhibit 1? Bin Laden and Pakistan.... any other country in the world we would have been MUCH more aggressive with... but... Nukes...

Posted by: BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at January 05, 2016 10:56 PM (f7rv6)

130 Where is the Kaboom? There was supposed to be a real big Kaboom!

Posted by: Kim Jong Marvin at January 05, 2016 10:56 PM (cKwwS)

131 124
The Japanese just spit their sake across the table.
--
Either the Norks will get them, or the Fukishima radiation.

Japan is toast either way.

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 05, 2016 10:56 PM (9JJgN)

132 Jimmy Carter: The gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: Socratease at January 05, 2016 10:56 PM (2GbWn)

133 I thought you said this was a nuclear weapon? But a hydrogen bomb would be a chemical weapon.

Posted by: Pres'nt Obama at January 05, 2016 10:56 PM (/ciMI)

134 Why would you name a nuclear bomb after a chemical!?

Posted by: Pres'nt Obama at January 05, 2016 10:57 PM (/ciMI)

135 104
My son is stationed in S. Korea. This makes my stomach turn.

Posted by: small town girl no longer banned! at January 05, 2016 10:52 PM (Yzubb)'
He'll be fine. Another Kim ploy to get more rice and foodstuffs.I did a couple of tours over in south Korea...good duty.

Posted by: Sixkiller at January 05, 2016 10:57 PM (szEUw)

136 Either the Norks will get them, or the Fukishima radiation.

Or their birthrate will.

Posted by: Socratease at January 05, 2016 10:57 PM (2GbWn)

137
Hayes Brown

KCNA: H-bomb tested "in a safe and perfect manner had no adverse impact on the ecological environment"

Translation: Everyone is dead

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 10:57 PM (kdS6q)

138 "Come see me in Sevastopol.
Posted by: Lyudmila Pavlichenko "

Va-va woom!

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 10:57 PM (8ltB7)

139 Those wacky Mayans may have been off a year or so but they seem to have gotten the gist of things right.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 05, 2016 10:58 PM (/tuJf)

140 Turd

I was attempting to string all of Zero's most infuriating cliches together, to illustrate what an egregious, incompetent, condescending idiot he is. Simple as that.

I probably missed a few, because Zero is to infuriating cliches what Caravaggio was to Renaissance art.

Am I clear now?

Posted by: mnwxyz at January 05, 2016 10:58 PM (NiHAc)

141 130 Where is the Kaboom? There was supposed to be a real big Kaboom!

Well, the cereal does have a moderately high radioactive content.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 05, 2016 10:58 PM (zHKuc)

142 >>It's probably fairly dirty and unreliable.

So, like a muslim refugee?

Posted by: Aviator at January 05, 2016 10:58 PM (c7vUv)

143 Where is the Kaboom? There was supposed to be a real big Kaboom!

Posted by: Kim Jong Marvin

That's my cereal.

Posted by: Sad Child at January 05, 2016 10:58 PM (/ciMI)

144 Hydrogen bombs are very lightweight, like a nerf bomb, couldn't hurt a fly.

Posted by: LIV at January 05, 2016 10:58 PM (8aOqE)

145 We'll just walk down the street whistling, as usual, and hope that we don't get mugged again, like we did in Tehran. I guess that we'll just have to hope that Honest John can work another good deal for us.

Posted by: goon at January 05, 2016 10:59 PM (gy5kE)

146 But it's a dry heat.

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 10:59 PM (MQEz6)

147 Jimmy Carter: The gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by: Socratease
------------------

You ain't seen nuthin yet.

Posted by: Ex-emperor Barko at January 05, 2016 10:59 PM (OLNwX)

148 Relax and learn to love the BOMB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4VlruVG81w

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 10:59 PM (DUoqb)

149 Well, the cereal does have a moderately high radioactive content.

Healthful Ionizing Radiation, now in a breakfast cereal!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 05, 2016 10:59 PM (rwI+c)

150
The Norks have a miniature H-bomb? Not to fear - we have a metric shot-ton of diplomatic #hashtags.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 05, 2016 10:59 PM (BK3ZS)

151 H Bomb.... not just a standard Fission Bomb...

Much bigger potential booms...

This is a big deal.

Posted by: BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (f7rv6)

IIRC, there is no theoretical limit to the size of an H-bomb. Fission bombs reach a limit in that it becomes impractical to combine vast numbers of sub-critical masses of fissionable material into one super-critical mass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2016 11:00 PM (cKwwS)

152 Hayes Brown

KCNA: H-bomb tested "in a safe and perfect manner had no adverse impact on the ecological environment"

Translation: Everyone is dead

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 10:57 PM (kdS6q)

People of the DPRK! The Glorious Kim Jong Un has graciously pre-cooked your daily ration of grass!

Posted by: Country Singer at January 05, 2016 11:00 PM (GUBah)

153 "The Japanese just spit their sake across the table."

That's a shame. Hate to waste good rice wine.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 11:00 PM (8ltB7)

154 I've seen this before. This movie's the bomb!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 05, 2016 11:00 PM (/ciMI)

155 Nucular winter to offset the global warming. This should make the El Nino extra special this year!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 05, 2016 11:01 PM (zHKuc)

156 Has the White House deployed James Taylor to the DMZ yet?

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 05, 2016 11:01 PM (rJUlF)

157 Posted by: BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at January 05, 2016 10:56 PM (f7rv6)

Duly noted. I firmly believe a Western leader with big brass ones would do something about proliferation before this gets out of hand.
Would=should

It aint going to be the US. The only big balls on ShitMidas........sumpin sumpin chin.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 05, 2016 11:01 PM (kKHcp)

158 You know it wasn't even the hydrogen that burned on the Hindenburg, it was the lacquer in the paint. So no worries.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 05, 2016 11:01 PM (1xUj/)

159 Aw, crud. eman beat me to it.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 05, 2016 11:01 PM (rJUlF)

160 A miniature H-bomb sounds like a microaggresion.

Posted by: college campus Special Snowflake at January 05, 2016 11:01 PM (dbDB8)

161 Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.

Posted by: thathalfrican at January 05, 2016 11:02 PM (R5HRU)

162 I should be able to pick up Dr. Strangelove DVD tomorrow at the post office.

It will probably be quoted a lot here.

Posted by: A.Smythers, A Celt at January 05, 2016 11:02 PM (ugz3A)

163 #ShootIsraelFirst

Posted by: Pres'nt Obama at January 05, 2016 11:02 PM (/ciMI)

164 Speaking of radioactive shit, has anyone noticed how the "I F---ing Love Science" crowd is crowing as if they personally discovered the four new elements just added to the periodic table.

Posted by: Bevo at January 05, 2016 11:02 PM (DZF+K)

165 109; 114; 117

Excellent catches! I plum forgot those.

Posted by: mnwxyz at January 05, 2016 11:03 PM (NiHAc)

166 Captain Whitebread at January 05, 2016 11:01 PM (rJUlF)

How did the check up go?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 05, 2016 11:03 PM (/tuJf)

167 I read the Nork statement. Can they not hire one competent English speaker to put these things together?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 05, 2016 11:03 PM (u5gzz)

168 The N. Koreans have assured us that this just the first step in the development of hydrogen powered automobiles. It is nuclear power for peace and a better world.

Posted by: Barky at January 05, 2016 11:03 PM (OLNwX)

169 "Fuck fuck fuckity fuck."

I'm sure everything will be fine.

*rolls eyes, sighs*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 11:03 PM (8ltB7)

170 I read the Nork statement. Can they not hire one competent English speaker to put these things together?
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 05, 2016 11:03 PM (u5gzz)

how much are they paying? Asking for a friend

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 11:04 PM (DUoqb)

171 So it was an h bomb and not an H bomb?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 05, 2016 10:54 PM (FkBIv)

Or an ℏ-bomb.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2016 11:04 PM (zc3Db)

172 93
Here's the English bulletin from KCNA, North Korea's central news agency

Well, at least it's green:

It was confirmed that the H-bomb test conducted in a safe and perfect manner had no adverse impact on the ecological environment.

That's a relief.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 05, 2016 11:04 PM (o78gS)

173 Can they not hire one competent English speaker to put these things together?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud,

I can translate!

Posted by: Fake Sign Language Guy at January 05, 2016 11:04 PM (/ciMI)

174 I read the Nork statement. Can they not hire one competent English speaker to put these things together?
Posted by: Cloyd Freud
-----------

On a par with the notice I got from the Nigerian banker.

Posted by: Barky at January 05, 2016 11:04 PM (OLNwX)

175 Exactly.
Kim is a buffoon who regularly spouts outrageous BS so the world doesn't forget about him. Reminds me of a presidential candidate... let's see... who is that guy again?
Spouts with a Mexican accent?

Posted by: !Jeb! at January 05, 2016 11:05 PM (DLIIY)

176 According to the Wiki, 5.1 on the Richter scale isn't a very big kaboom.

Posted by: A.Smythers, A Celt at January 05, 2016 11:05 PM (ugz3A)

177 Speaking of radioactive shit, has anyone noticed how the "I F---ing Love Science" crowd is crowing as if they personally discovered the four new elements just added to the periodic table.

I may be a curmudgeon, but I question whether a made in the lab thing with a half life of 20 seconds counts as a real element.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 05, 2016 11:05 PM (1xUj/)

178 Trump is gona make hay of this tomorrow

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 11:05 PM (DUoqb)

179 "Can they not hire one competent English speaker to put these things together?"

Cocksucka!

Posted by: Mr. Wu, acting NK spokesman at January 05, 2016 11:06 PM (8ltB7)

180 165 109; 114; 117
Excellent catches! I plum forgot those.

But was he crying while giving us the middle finger? That's when you can tell he's telling the truth no matter what! Right?

Posted by: lindafell de spair at January 05, 2016 11:06 PM (xVgrA)

181 It's probably fairly dirty and unreliable.
Just like my wife!

Posted by: zombie rodney dangerfield at January 05, 2016 11:06 PM (DLIIY)

182 I may be a curmudgeon, but I question whether a made in the lab thing with a half life of 20 seconds counts as a real element.

Posted by: Bandersnatch

*stares*

Posted by: Tony Stark at January 05, 2016 11:06 PM (/ciMI)

183 Ah, nothing beats the ol' hydrogen sulfide bomb...

Posted by: Hillary! at January 05, 2016 11:06 PM (yddCj)

184 20 Repub candidates should remind people about the Clinton/North Korea nuclear deal and how that worked out for us.
--
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

oh wait...

were you serious?

ahahahahahahahaha....

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 05, 2016 11:07 PM (3sfPC)

185 "According to the Wiki, 5.1 on the Richter scale isn't a very big kaboom. "

Oh, well, then we've got nothing to worry about.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 11:07 PM (8ltB7)

186 Well all I can hope for at this point is a few things; The Chicoms tell the Norks to settle the fuck down, the Norks use the bomb as a bargaining chip - hey it's better than starting world war fucking 3 -, and we finally elect some adults who will actually do something about all this shit.

I know I'm hoping against hope, but still.

Shit.

Posted by: thathalfrican at January 05, 2016 11:07 PM (R5HRU)

187 Why would you name a nuclear bomb after a chemical!?
Obama isn't intelligent enough or educated enough to understand that shot at him.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2016 11:07 PM (DLIIY)

188 Low yield due to impure illudium phosdex.

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at January 05, 2016 11:08 PM (FtrY1)

189 Can we make an X-bomb? Things with an "x" in them are way cooler and sound more dangerous.

Posted by: otho at January 05, 2016 11:08 PM (EWg9n)

190 The worst part about this is that it reanimates King Il Sung as a 250 foot sea monster.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 05, 2016 11:08 PM (zHKuc)

191 "It's probably fairly dirty and unreliable.
Just like my wife!"

That was actually pretty awesome.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 11:08 PM (8ltB7)

192 Fredo will play this up tomorrow as a failed Hydrogen test and only a normal A bomb test so he succeeded again in preventing disaster and this is congress's fault for not cooperating with him on a nuke bomb ban law

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 11:09 PM (DUoqb)

193 Maybe we can send a bunch of adult coloring books and markers to calm everyone down!!!

Posted by: lindafell de spair at January 05, 2016 11:09 PM (xVgrA)

194 Can we make an X-bomb? Things with an "x" in them are way cooler and sound more dangerous.

With the thing what goes up!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 05, 2016 11:09 PM (KCxzN)

195 177
I may be a curmudgeon, but I question whether a made in the lab thing with a half life of 20 seconds counts as a real element.

That's stablist.

Posted by: Radioactive Lives Matter at January 05, 2016 11:10 PM (o78gS)

196 Bullshit. They haven't.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 05, 2016 11:10 PM (/f6Nd)

197 Did they ever have a completely successful test of a fission bomb? I only remember one that was part fizzle. And that one of the Kims shot eighteen consecutive holes in one.

Posted by: The Donald at January 05, 2016 11:11 PM (nFdGS)

198 With the thing what goes up!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 05, 2016 11:09 PM

Now you're on the trolley!

Posted by: otho at January 05, 2016 11:11 PM (EWg9n)

199 The only answer is (sob!) common sense gun control.

Posted by: Preznit "Whiny Bitch" McFuckstick at January 05, 2016 11:11 PM (u5gzz)

200 #24

Gee, thanks Oppenheimer.

I think most of us know that.

Posted by: Sho Nuff at January 05, 2016 11:11 PM (CWImE)

201 The Kim Jong Un manspreading in the soon to be released propaganda videos will be Magic Johnson-esque.

Posted by: Chococheese at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (OvUux)

202 You know it wasn't even the hydrogen that burned on the Hindenburg, it was the lacquer in the paint. So no worries.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 05, 2016 11:01 PM (1xUj/)

Not the lacquer, per se. It was painted with "dope" which is (was) standard aircraft paint of the day. Nitrocellulose resin (aka smokeless powder) dissolved in acetone, with a pigment composed of aluminum dust and red iron oxide. Red iron oxide + aluminum dust = thermite.

So the Hindenberg was painted with a pyrotechnic mixture. And once that got lit off, probably due to static electric discharge, the hydrogen in the internal gas cells was done like dinner.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (cKwwS)

203 #196: you have to honor the threat...

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (3sfPC)

204 I also forgot, "Let's not jump to conclusions. Wait 'til the facts are known."

(Vis a vis EVERY patently obvious Islamic terrorist attack)

Posted by: mnwxyz at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (NiHAc)

205 The ONT dedicated to me or San Jose pay the price!

Posted by: kim jong-un at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (DLIIY)

206 Good thing it wasn't above ground, as the EMP would make N Korea go dark...oh, wait.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (zHKuc)

207 The ONT dedicated to me or San Jose pay the price!
Posted by: kim jong-un at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (DLIIY)

Do you know the way...

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 11:13 PM (DUoqb)

208 An executive order should clear it all up.

Posted by: Timo at January 05, 2016 11:13 PM (hy43O)

209 If the Chinese economy is really going tits-up, their desire and ability to control the Norks will also go tits-up.

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 11:13 PM (MQEz6)

210 So, zombie virus in May?

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 11:14 PM (MQEz6)

211 Damn Thermonuclear loophole.

Posted by: Timo at January 05, 2016 11:14 PM (hy43O)

212 And that one of the Kims shot eighteen consecutive holes in one.

Posted by: The Donald at January 05, 2016 11:11 PM (nFdGS)

He only shot something like 8 in a row. He scored around a 35 on his first golf round. It was interesting that Barky bowled a 37 when he demonstrated the art of spastic bowling during his pathetic 2008 campaign. He was in heavy competition with little Kim.

Of course, Barky shoots about 142 on the golf course (even with all of his cheating).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2016 11:14 PM (zc3Db)

213 197 Did they ever have a completely successful test of a fission bomb? I only remember one that was part fizzle. And that one of the Kims shot eighteen consecutive holes in one.
Posted by: The Donald at January 05, 2016 11:11 PM (nFdGS)

I suspect they're a better bet to have built a kimchee bomb.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 05, 2016 11:14 PM (oKE6c)

214 Now you're on the trolley!

Trolley?! monorail, Monorail, MONORAIL!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 05, 2016 11:15 PM (rwI+c)

215 I may be a curmudgeon, but I question whether a made in the lab thing with a half life of 20 seconds counts as a real element.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 05, 2016 11:05 PM (1xUj/)

It fits on the Periodic table, and behaves, physically, and chemically, as would be expected for for an element of that atomic number. It's an element. Rustle me up some Astatine, will you?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2016 11:15 PM (cKwwS)

216 It's fair to say North Korean physicists are the most...motivated group of scientists on the planet. Kim Jong Un mortars those who displease him. He blows them into tiny pieces while their families watch and then sends their families off (all of their family members to the third generation) to reeducation camps. For life.

So no, I don't laugh off claims about advances in Nork nuke technology.

Posted by: troyriser at January 05, 2016 11:15 PM (Au69S)

217 I don't think that EMP affects batteries, so the Babypods should keep working. Might be a little tough to download any new tunes though.

Posted by: goon at January 05, 2016 11:16 PM (gy5kE)

218 "If the Chinese economy is really going tits-up, their desire and ability to control the Norks will also go tits-up. "

Yah, they've still got a shit-ton more money, food, and, military than the Norks. They can tell their little bitches to the south to STFU and they'll have to do it. Or else.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 11:16 PM (8ltB7)

219 The ONT dedicated to me or San Jose pay the price!
Posted by: kim jong-un at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (DLIIY)
If we're lucky, you'll hit San Francisco instead.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at January 05, 2016 11:16 PM (FohCt)

220 I doubt DPRK exploded a real H-Bomb. More likely a 'boosted' weapon with tritium added to increase the yield of a fission bomb.
Someone on Twitter who Instapundit just quoted.
https://twitter.com/Cirincione/status/684584251568877568

Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2016 11:16 PM (DLIIY)

221 They wanted to start 2016 off with a bang.

Posted by: S at January 05, 2016 11:16 PM (HCXGq)

222 This was entirely preventable if we had only closed the nuke show loophole...

Posted by: TFG at January 05, 2016 11:16 PM (KCxzN)

223 48
Fishboone - Party At Ground Zero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLm7Y90L1G4

I'll see that and raise you Christmas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU

Posted by: Anachronda at January 05, 2016 11:16 PM (o78gS)

224 I suspect they're a better bet to have built a kimchee bomb.

Posted by: Jay Guevara

That stinks.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 05, 2016 11:16 PM (/ciMI)

225 205
The ONT dedicated to me or San Jose pay the price!

Posted by: kim jong-un at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (DLIIY)

San Francisco is a much more strategically important place. Just ask them. And it's a port!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2016 11:16 PM (EzgxV)

226 Damn, the wiki has a lot of information on the Trinity test. I remember reading Tom Clancy and asking how he could write some of the stuff he wrote 'cuz it was all classified.

Posted by: A.Smythers, A Celt at January 05, 2016 11:17 PM (ugz3A)

227 you beat me to it, Timo

Posted by: TFG at January 05, 2016 11:17 PM (KCxzN)

228 I doubt DPRK exploded a real H-Bomb. More likely a 'boosted' weapon with tritium added to increase the yield of a fission bomb.

Little Boy with a supercharger.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 05, 2016 11:18 PM (FkBIv)

229 They wanted to start 2016 off with a bang.

Posted by: S

Quick--when's Korean New Year?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 05, 2016 11:18 PM (/ciMI)

230
Wesley Chu

Guys, guys, when Kim Jung Un says he has the H-bomb, he doesn't mean the hydrogen bomb, he means this

[pic] https://twitter.com/wes_chu/status/684590439647711232

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 11:18 PM (kdS6q)

231 It was interesting that Barky bowled a 37 when he demonstrated the art
of spastic bowling during his pathetic 2008 campaign. He was in heavy
competition with little Kim.

It wasn't spastic bowling. He was getting anally probed by an invisible alien just as he delivered the ball.

Same thing with his golf swing.

Also his baseball throw.

Srsly, he's one of the least athletic people I've ever seen.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 05, 2016 11:18 PM (oKE6c)

232 Oh, yeah!

I forgot, "Press the reset button," too.

How in helll could I have forgotten Zero's magic reset button? Damn!

Posted by: mnwxyz at January 05, 2016 11:19 PM (NiHAc)

233 Fission, fussion. What difference does it make?

Posted by: The guy at ground zero at January 05, 2016 11:19 PM (MgcKq)

234 We use Tlitium, Yankee dogs!

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 11:20 PM (MQEz6)

235 This guy should be getting a boost in his record sales. H-Bomb Ferguson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Z5w8QiaLQ

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2016 11:20 PM (cKwwS)

236 A candidate worth a shit would make video ads in the same vein that the Dems did when Goldwater was running, except, against a backdrop of mushroom clouds would be a voice overlay of the enabling policies of Clinton and Barky. Make it plain to the most ignorant of LIV's that these people have destabilized the world. Address the aggressive nuclear threats that Iran and the Norks have become under Clinton and Obama policies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2016 11:21 PM (OLNwX)

237 "Fission, fussion. What difference does it make?"

I'm no rocket scientist but I think it has something to do with atoms fusing or fissing.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 05, 2016 11:21 PM (8ltB7)

238 San Francisco cocksucka!!!

Posted by: mister wu at January 05, 2016 11:21 PM (DLIIY)

239 Ummmmmm, at least the weather girl is a like prettier right?

Posted by: Skip at January 05, 2016 11:21 PM (KtJ+S)

240 I suspect they're a better bet to have built a kimchee bomb.

***

Worse than napalm.

Trust me on this one.

Posted by: Punch Rockgroin at January 05, 2016 11:21 PM (g2DAI)

241 Maybe MacArthur should have sacked Truman.

Posted by: eman at January 05, 2016 11:21 PM (MQEz6)

242 Trolley?! monorail, Monorail, MONORAIL!
Posted by: Grump928(C)

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine, bona fide
Electrified, six-megaton monorail

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 05, 2016 11:22 PM (FkBIv)

243 Srsly, he's one of the least athletic people I've ever seen.
Posted by: Jay Guevara
---------------

Basketball? Weight lifting?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2016 11:22 PM (OLNwX)

244 Fission! Fusion!
Fusion! Fission!
Let's call the whole thing off!

Posted by: zombie fred astaire at January 05, 2016 11:23 PM (DLIIY)

245 Srsly, he's one of the least athletic people I've ever seen.

Posted by: Jay Guevara

I noticed you didn't say anything about my sweet jump shot!

Posted by: Pres'nt Obama at January 05, 2016 11:23 PM (/ciMI)

246
DPRK News Service*

DPRK science awes lesser nations in successful detonation of 250 megaton hydrogen bomb. 10,000 years of life to Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un!

*Official News feed of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. We make pee pee in your Coke.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 11:23 PM (kdS6q)

247 The Media will always have Obama's supposed 40 foot chip in putt.

Posted by: cm9000 at January 05, 2016 11:23 PM (2TUVm)

248 Let me see if got this right. The SCOAMF is all about getting rid of all nuclear weapons.....yet 2 more countries have now got them and no one else got rid of all of theirs. That doesn't seem like less to me. Oh, wait, WE reduced OUR Arsenal so it's all good...carry on, comrade.

Posted by: lindafell de spair at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (xVgrA)

249 Somebody set us up the bomb.
Main screen turn on.
All your base are belong to us.

Posted by: wooga at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (XK0dn)

250 A H-Bomb really seems more like a Shelbyville idea.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (rwI+c)

251 Oh, yeah!

I forgot, "Press the reset button," too.

How in helll could I have forgotten Zero's magic reset button? Damn!

Posted by: mnwxyz at January 05, 2016 11:19 PM (NiHAc)

It wasn't a "reset" button. It was an "overcharged" (as in 'about to blow') button ... because the State department couldn't accurately translate one word into Russian ... a language that we have had to spy in and decipher and montior for almost half a century of the Cold War. But Barky and Shrillary's state dept couldn't even get that correc t for a very public (and stupid) diplomatic presentation.

And then Shrillary had the stupidity to ask Lavrov if they had gotten it correct - since "we worked so hard on getting the right translation". LOL.

PEREGRUZKA!!![\b]

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (zc3Db)

252 Any Republican who isn't pounding on Clinton and Obama over this tomorrow should just go home.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 05, 2016 10:38 PM (/tuJf)
---
One's already been doing it, though without great focus on it.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (MbrzC)

253 Pffffttt... "H-bombs". How bad can they be? They only got hydrogen in them and shit. I've put a match to hydrogen before and it wasn't that impressive.

Posted by: otho at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (EWg9n)

254 I noticed you didn't say anything about my sweet jump shot!
Yeah! Nothing but nuts!

Posted by: president o'bumbles at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (DLIIY)

255 Oh, and by the way if you've not taken the time to watch the video in the sidebar on the Binary Trigger for the AR-15

GO WATCH IT NOW!

it will make parts of you feel funny

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (kKHcp)

256 I noticed you didn't say anything about my sweet jump shot!
Posted by: Pres'nt Obama at January 05, 2016 11:23 PM
--
Definitely have the wrist action on the follow through and the pose for the camera. Very photogenic.

Posted by: A.Smythers, A Celt at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (ugz3A)

257 The Media will always have Obama's supposed 40 foot chip in putt.

Posted by: cm9000

"Supposed?" C'mon, with all the golf I play, surely I can get lucky once.

Posted by: Pres'nt Obama at January 05, 2016 11:25 PM (/ciMI)

258 But... background checks, so we'll all be safe.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2016 11:25 PM (OLNwX)

259

You know, that may be a gimmick account. Then again, maybe not.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 11:25 PM (kdS6q)

260
OK, confirmed for fake, but still pretty good:

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 11:26 PM (kdS6q)

261 LOL.

Headline at Twitchy: "'Earthquake' reportedly hits NK near known nuclear test site; hydrogen bomb?"

Overheard minutes before said 'earthquake':

"I said LUNCH, not LAUNCH!!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 05, 2016 11:27 PM (ntObR)

262 Hey everybody.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 05, 2016 11:27 PM (ntObR)

263 ONT is up...

Posted by: Country Singer at January 05, 2016 11:27 PM (GUBah)

264 A.Smythers, A Celt, #226:

"I remember reading Tom Clancy and asking how he could write some of the stuff he wrote 'cuz it was all classified."

Ever read the part of The Hunt for Red October where he describes the backstory for the Son Tay raid? He mentions the preparations, the rehearsals, all of it extremely close-held, and recounts how on the day of the raid, a young Air Force intelligence officer walked into his boss' office and asked if there was a deep-penetration raid laid on for an NVA POW camp.

In this story-within-the-story, the boss proceeds to grill the guy at length, trying to figure out who leaked, only to figure out that his subordinate had seen enough not-highly-classified pieces to put it all together. I wonder now whether the story was apocryphal, and Clancy wasn't creating a metaphor for any security breach he thought he might be writing.

I get the sense it's not too hard to aggregate open-source nuke info into a highly classified bigger picture.

Posted by: JPS at January 05, 2016 11:27 PM (9ziuC)

265 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 11:26 PM (kdS6q)

How do you keep a 'ron in suspense?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at January 05, 2016 11:27 PM (/ciMI)

266 He can run down plane steps like a black man!

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2016 11:27 PM (qUNWi)

267
That North Korean news Twitter account is fake

http://tinyurl.com/m3njvbp

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 05, 2016 11:27 PM (kdS6q)

268 Maybe San Jose spared... for now. I see first.

Posted by: kim jong-un at January 05, 2016 11:28 PM (DLIIY)

269 Wait, shouldn't this just be regarded as a local story?

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 05, 2016 11:29 PM (MbrzC)

270 Kim is a buffoon who regularly spouts outrageous BS so the world doesn't forget about him. Reminds me of a presidential candidate...let's see...who is that guy again?

Posted by: Sixkiller at January 05, 2016 10:54 PM (szEUw)

John Kasich?

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 05, 2016 11:30 PM (MbrzC)

271 i just dropped a mini hbomb. Enviromental damage to be determined.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2016 11:31 PM (ucDmr)

272 So, the Norks supposedly have mini H-bombs and they just tested a submarine-capable missile. Put the two together and you get "One Second Later".

I just finished "One Year Later". Not a bad yarn.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 05, 2016 11:32 PM (s87AC)

273 131 124
The Japanese just spit their sake across the table.
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More likely they just re-dusted off their go-nuclear plans for third or fourth look, same as the Saudis.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 05, 2016 11:32 PM (MbrzC)

274 Just remember, the b in the name is the bomb!

Posted by: Jeb! at January 05, 2016 11:33 PM (sOhww)

275 178 Trump is gona make hay of this tomorrow

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2016 11:05 PM (DUoqb)
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Actually he's already been talking about NK on occasion, so yes you can bank on that, along with plenty of i told you so's, and he'll throw the Clinton's in with it this time.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 05, 2016 11:36 PM (MbrzC)

276 202
Not the lacquer, per se. It was painted with "dope" which is (was) standard aircraft paint of the day. Nitrocellulose resin (aka smokeless powder) dissolved in acetone, with a pigment composed of aluminum dust and red iron oxide. Red iron oxide + aluminum dust = thermite.

So the Hindenberg was painted with a pyrotechnic mixture. And once that got lit off, probably due to static electric discharge, the hydrogen in the internal gas cells was done like dinner.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2016 11:12 PM (cKwwS)

I remember seeing a TV documentary about it some years ago. Apparently it was a NASA engineer who first realized that, noting that aluminum powder was an ingredient in the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters.

Posted by: rickl at January 05, 2016 11:36 PM (sdi6R)

277 235 This guy should be getting a boost in his record sales. H-Bomb Ferguson:
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Why would you want to drop a Hillary on Ferguson, haven't they seen enough burning in the last year?

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 05, 2016 11:39 PM (MbrzC)

278 So ISIS is flush with millions in cash from oil.....North Korea is a basket case that could really use the cash....ISIS says, hey yo Kim un jung whatever the fuck your name is, how about 50 million in cash for ya for a low level nuke....Kim ung whatever says, cool brah, just as long as you detonate it in America, those fuckers.

Plausible?

Posted by: Duncan MacLeod, The Highlander at January 05, 2016 11:40 PM (COpZ4)

279 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2016 11:24 PM (zc3Db)
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Amazing levels of stupidity on multiple levels wrapped up in that whole affair. Shining example of what's to come if she's POTUS.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 05, 2016 11:42 PM (MbrzC)

280 I get the sense it's not too hard to aggregate open-source nuke info into a highly classified bigger picture.

Posted by: JPS at January 05, 2016 11:27 PM (9ziuC)
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We do this every day, and get paid well for it.

Posted by: The C I A at January 05, 2016 11:44 PM (MbrzC)

281 I'm sure they do have a bomb but their definition of success is vastly different than our own. The thing could fall, not detonate and not come apart and they would say its a "success"

Posted by: Young Blood at January 05, 2016 11:48 PM (GLCab)

282 278 So ISIS is flush with millions in cash from oil.....North Korea is a basket case that could really use the cash....ISIS says, hey yo Kim un jung whatever the fuck your name is, how about 50 million in cash for ya for a low level nuke....Kim ung whatever says, cool brah, just as long as you detonate it in America, those fuckers.

Plausible?

Posted by: Duncan MacLeod, The Highlander at January 05, 2016 11:40 PM (COpZ4)
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Kind of, ISIS certainly does have the cash, though I'm not sure they'd waste it on something they weren't sure was going to work and they would know it would be one-time event only. They've already show then envoke nearly as much fear and chaos with far less money, and part of that is in people knowing they're not one-time events. So frankly they get more bang for their bucks I think shooting people and cutting off heads, cause western leaders for the most part can ignore that without political trouble.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 05, 2016 11:48 PM (MbrzC)

283 282
Kind of, ISIS certainly does have the cash, though I'm not sure they'd waste it on something they weren't sure was going to work and they would know it would be one-time event only. They've already show then envoke nearly as much fear and chaos with far less money, and part of that is in people knowing they're not one-time events. So frankly they get more bang for their bucks I think shooting people and cutting off heads, cause western leaders for the most part can ignore that without political trouble.
Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 05, 2016 11:48 PM (MbrzC)

I think you're right. Muslims have never needed nukes to conquer societies before. What makes today any different?

Their standard tactics of barbaric violence, infiltration, and outbreeding have always worked in the past.

The cowardly, self-loathing Western leadership is more dangerous than any nuclear weapon.

Posted by: rickl at January 06, 2016 12:11 AM (sdi6R)

284 outbreeding - something largely missed\ignored in most current examinations.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 06, 2016 12:36 AM (MbrzC)

285 Didn't Hillary's husband give the Norkos a bizillian dollars to not develop nodular weapons?

Posted by: Buffalbob at January 06, 2016 12:47 AM (8nL8o)

286 285 - Money,food, and for a while oil.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 06, 2016 12:59 AM (MbrzC)

287 Didn't Hillary's husband give the Norkos a bizillian dollars to not develop nodular weapons?
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He should have gotten a receipt

Posted by: Methos at January 06, 2016 12:59 AM (ZbV+0)

288
Boring.

Let's talk about Comfort Women instead! Now there's a vital topic.

Posted by: Whitehall at January 06, 2016 02:37 AM (A1pol)

289 Wait Back it up. The JEF bowled 39. If true that should have automatically disqualified him!

Posted by: keena at January 06, 2016 02:57 AM (RiTnx)

290
The Amchita 5 MT test cause a 7.0 earthquake
A 5.0 earthquake is 1/100 of that.
If it scales linearly, that means the Nork test was about 50 kT or a boosted fission device.
A boosted fission device uses tritium for a little extra kick and tops out at about 100 kT.

Posted by: Whitehall at January 06, 2016 04:57 AM (C/qzM)

291 Wikipedia says the 2013 NorK test registered 5.1, and it was estimated at anything between 5 and 16 kt, so a lower yield than Little Boy.

Posted by: Botec at January 06, 2016 05:03 AM (Kp+Po)

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