Thanks, Matt, for cheering us up in these hard times.
UPDATE: Apparently, it was a dud. U.S. intelligence officials are saying "seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used to create a chain reaction in a plutonium-based device went off, but that the blast's readings were shy of a typical nuclear detonation. "
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Such a slap in the face to all of our fathers and Grandfathers who fought in the Korean war...
...only to have this happen.
Peace, Maxine
He rooks ronery. So ronery.
That's such a perfect movie. I just rewatched that scene.
Check out these terrifyingly depressing photographs of North Korea.
Uh, premature fission?
Ann,
This comment isn't about the Drudge Dud cartoon but about what happens when Firefox is used to view your blog. When I use Firefox and just go to althouse.blogspot.com or http://althouse.blogspot.com, the October 1 version of your blog always appears, with no posts showing after October 1. That doesn't happen in Internet Explorer, and it doesn't happen in Firefox if I preface the URL with www. For several days I've thought your blog was down because of this problem, and I thought you might want to know about it in case others are having the same problem.
Best wishes,
Mark Scarberry
Mark, that is definitely something odd in the way Firefox handles caching of some Blogger sites. It's so random that, as far as I know, no one has been able to narrow down what Blogger code triggers the "stuck" pages...but clearing cache and restarting the browser usually solves the problem.
Mark: I've discussed this problem in a post in the past, and Gerry worked on the problem, which Foxfire will fix in the future. For now, the only thing you can do is refresh to get the current page
Mark-
I have the same problem. The "F5" key is your friend here.
Noah:
As far as I can recall, the problem with a gun-type mechanism with Pu is that the 2 sub-critical chunks are brought together too slowly, causing a less powerful and predictable reaction. The implosion mechanism, assuming it works correctly, brings the Pu nearly instantly to critical mass, and is therefore more predictable.
Palladian, what a great link. I haven't even looked at all the photos yet, but they are fascinating.
This Frontline about NK is a must-see. Whole episode available online:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kim/view/
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