North Korea Claims It Has Tested Hydrogen Bomb

North Korea says it has conducted its first "successful" test of a hydrogen bomb, hailing the detonation as a "historic" event.

"The republic's first hydrogen bomb test has been successfully performed at 10:00 am on January 6, 2016, based on the strategic determination of the Workers' Party," a state television news reader said.

"With the perfect success of our historic H-bomb, we have joined the rank of advanced nuclear states," the announcer added, claiming the test was of a "miniaturised" device.

If the claim is confirmed it would mark a major, and alarming, step forward in the isolated country's nuclear development, as hydrogen bombs generally more powerful than nuclear bombs.

A hydrogen, or thermonuclear device, uses fusion in a chain reaction that causes a much more powerful explosion than the fission blast generated by uranium or plutonium.

http://news.sky.com/story/1617438/north-korea-claims-it-has-tested-hydrogen-bomb

Nuke 'em now before they nuke us???

I read summut a little while ago, I think it said this.

Each patrolling USA B52 long range bombers carry or carried 8 big bombs, each equivalent to 17,000, yes seventeen thousand times the devastation of each Hiroshima or Nagasaki atom bomb.

BANG.

Don't you think they could test one of them?

This is bad news

Well, we've sanctioned N. Korea to the max already, nothing else can be done.

Even China expressed disapproval.

nicko wrote:Nuke 'em now before they nuke us???

That is exactly what is wished for here. The lunatics have taken over the world that is for sure.

Jane, I was joking!

Then again------------------

Yet they haven't got the range to even reach Japan. NK using a single nuke would be suicidal, the end of them as a country.