In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 8 Jan 2016 07:32:21 -0800: Hi, I suspect that a more likely scenario is that they tied to explode a conventional fusion weapon, but only the trigger exploded, not the fusion bomb.
> >You still are not on the right page, John. > >I think this is because you are unaware of Leif Holmlids work, and how that >work fits into the big picture of World politics. Holmlid is showing complete >mass conversion of nucleons into energy, which is a step above nuclear fusion. >He has been publishing this in peer reviewed journals for a decade but AFAIK, >none of his important experiments are independently replicated, at least not >in the USA. > >I will try to be more specific on the details. Going back to the original >premise, if we can believe both Professor Holmlid and North Korea then what >we are facing is precarious situation for World Peace which could be worse >than imagined by experts. The points to consider and combine are: > >1) Holmlid has presented a technique to make an ultra-dense from of >deuterium (UDD) which has a nucleon separation of 2.3 picometers. >2) This material has been shown to be much easier to fuse than normal >deuterium. In fact, Holmlid can fuse UDD and even cause complete nucleon >disintegration, using only a milliwatt laser for triggering. >3) NK has been involved in LENR since about 2001, according to an earlier >press release. They certainly are capable of doing sophisticated research in >nuclear physics and can be assumed to have read Holmlids papers. >4) NK has this week tested what they call a compact hydrogen bomb but >the yield is in the range of few kilotons far less than a fission triggered >fusion type of H-bomb and less than a boosted design. >5) This combination of salient facts, if true, leads to only a few >conclusions about what is really going on behind the scenes. >6) One conclusion, which may be unlikely but which cannot be ignored, is >that NK has managed to make enough of the Holmlid deuterium (UDD), or even >UDDT, to weaponized. >7) The great risk of open-research on the internet is that an exotic >material such as UDD, which can be easily converted into energy, can be >produced and disintegrated without a fission trigger by a Rogue Nation or >well-funded terrorist group. >8) For instance, if you do the numbers to extrapolate from Holmlids tests >to the 5 kiloton explosion which did happen this week then it is possible >that a few grams of UDD could produce that kind of result if fully >disintegrated into muons. The ratio for comparative energy of UDD to TNT is >about one billion to one. The NK could even have used laser triggering. > >For a sardonic laugh, imagine 1,000 laser-pointers surrounding a tiny fuel >pellet like mini version of NIF. > >From: John Berry > >Looking it up, Boosted Fission if a Fission-Fusion bomb where the Fusion >instead of being the main event is merely a minor improver of Fission >efficiency. > >Fusion Fission (as a bomb) is not possibly according to anything declassified >or any known physics within reason. > Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html