A Valentine Card from North Korea

A Valentine Card from North Korea

 The latest greeting card from North Korea
Is enough to give anybody, diarrhea.
Even though nobody important here seemed to be too loudly  replying 
North Korea was probably telling the truth, not lying
in their  claim to now have a type of  hydrogen weapon.


So whatever hope there is now for peace  will be be fleeting
and we should prepare 
to beware their Greeting --
the day  they  come our way-
either fairly soon, at some high noon,
or else perhaps  a future Valentine's Day.


But it is not the  hydrogen bomb, but a mixed fission-fusion-fission weapon, which is extremely powerful, yet small enough to fit into a missile. Their new so-called satellite launch seems to confirm this is the direction in which they are going.
These weapons are more accurate and much more powerful than the ones used on Japan that ended World War Two.

And with such weapons in  our  current  destiny,

 how many of us could  expect to   be there finally 

at the end of a World War Three?

 HzL  2/5/16  

A Hydrogen Bomb by Any Other Name - The New Yorker

www.newyorker.com/.../a-hydrogen-bomb-by-any-othe...





The New Yorker

Jan 8, 2016 - The power of the explosion seemed on par with the largest of North Korea's previous tests—the equivalent of around ten kilotons of TNT.

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In the news

North Korea's Mystery Bomb by Jeremy Bernstein | NYR Daily

The New York Review of Books‎ - 16 hours ago
Newsletters · New York Review of Books ... The major North Korean nuclear facility—the Yongbyon Nuclear ... to employ the term of art—it was still a very large explosion.
North Korea plans to launch satellite



Nuclear weapon design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design





Wikipedia

Weapons involving fusion were called hydrogen bombs or H-bombs, also a misnomer... 3 Fusion-boosted fission weapons; 4 Two-stage thermonuclear weapons ..... bombs were replaced by missile warheads (also two-stage thermonuclears) ..... With its originalmission no longer available, the Livermore lab tried radical  ...