I beg your pardon. I’m assuming that since they sell missiles to other countries, they will be offering discounts if the customer buys a nuclear warhead to go with them.
mea culpa
But of course. Had you posted 1 minute earlier I wouldn’t have continued it.
Truly? And I don’t even know you, Nemo. I appreciate your concern, though there really isn’t any need for it. Maybe after November and with a job change, you’ll see me back to my old, chipper self. Just a little frustration, not enough fatty foods, cigarettes or alcohol(i.e.-diet+quitting smoking+marriage induced alcohol abstention, AKA growing up).
Cheers! 
Sam
If the september 9th blast had been nuclear, its fallout cloud would have reached Japan by now, and we would know.
The media here would be going apeshit if it were even suspected. So far, nothing.
The closest I found was a story in this morning’s Daily Yomiuri about South Korean nuclear tests in the 90’s.
The store is being picked up. Google lists over 100 stories on it so far.
Well, the New York Times is reporting the blast within the context of the story about nuclear weapons, but is not saying the blast was a nuclear blast.
Perhaps we will know when various governments choose to tell us, or when a reputable independent third party offers up such evidence that said governments don’t turn around and attempt to discredit such claims.
Well, that is a pretty good deal. My grandmother wouldn’t even pass it up!
I’m waiting for the “HELL-PLOSION!!!” headline on Drudge.
If India and Pakistan can not nuke each other despite being pushed right up against each other, I have a small amount of hope that the huge lake between North Korea and the US will act as an effective buffer, assuming Kim Jong Il really is as insane as he is made out to be and would actually try anything more than posture.
Even still, I’m suddenly not quite as thrilled to be living in the PNW as I was just a few days ago.
Notwithstanding is one word but you did indeed use it correctly.
Seems odd that they would do an above ground test unless it was meant to show the world that they have nukes. North Korea is sure to have abandoned mines which would work well for testing the weapon. If they did want the world to know they have nukes through this event, a press release about the test would have been the way to go.
As for the “not cool” part of North Korea having nukes, I’m in agreement with that opinion. North Korea having nukes means an increased chance for a fuck up leading to a global exchange. The US having nukes while wanting others to not have them does not diminish this. Russia, France,England and China also have nuclear weapons and I’m sure none of them would too thrilled with Kim Jong Il joining the nuclear club.
At one time, the US had spy sats which were specifically designed to identify nuke tests. There was a big flap back in the 80s when one of them picked up a flash in South Africa. I can remember there being a lot of questions about what it was and if SA really did have the bomb. There’s been some speculation that SA and Israel were jointly working on a nuclear weapons program and the blast spotted by the sat was a test of this. It’s believed that SA abandoned their nuclear program shortly after this (presumably under pressure by the US), and that the Israeli’s continued on their own.
It seems logical to me that we’d still have some of those birds up there and that they’d have picked something up. So the questions are: Why’s the US government being quiet about it? Did they miss the blast? Or was it spotted and found not to be from a nuke? Or was it a nuke? And what are we going to do about it?
If it was a nuke, I think confirmed headlines would have been screaming about it by now.
CNN is currently reporting that a US Official is speculating that it may be a forest fire. But the BBC is reporting that there appears to be a crater left over from the blast. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Well, yeah, but the partial test-ban treaty (or whatever it’s called) that banned above-ground and atmospheric testing means that I’m sure that at least the US and Russia got good at seeing the effects of an underground test seismically.
Wait wait wait, how did Sadaam get the nukes all the way to North Korea?
Latest from CNN :
Hmm, not sounding like a forest fire so far.
Now it really doesn’t sound like a forest fire.
This could be bad…
Oh sweet mother of fuck…
Never mind folks, we’re okay. Nothing to see here.
Israel is in the middle east.
U.S.A. is the biggest arm dealer in the world. The american goverment sells weapons to very nasty people or else looks another way while american weapon companies do it.
Believe me North Korea has the mora highground in this issue.-
Hey! India is not a little country. Aside from that, I’m with you 100%…
Still no reports from Japanese bloggers with geiger counters.