North Korea H-bomb test claim
North Korea has announced it has carried out its first hydrogen bomb test. H-bombs are much more powerful than atom bombs and use nuclear fusion, instead of fission, to trigger an uncontrolled chain reaction
Punggye-ri, 01:30GMT: 5.1-magnitude quake detected – similar to three previous atom bomb tests in 2013 (5.1), 2009 (4.5) and 2006 (4.1)
CHINA
RUSSIA
Yongjori
Kanggye
Sea of Japan
(East Sea)
Nuclear facilities
Taechon
NORTH
KOREA
Tonghae
Reactor
Chonmasan
Research
Hagap
Nuclear
reprocessing
Sohae
Uranium
enrichment
Yongbyon
Demilitarized
Zone
Pakchon
Pyongyang
Suspected
enrichment site
Weapon testing
Yellow Sea
(West Sea)
100km
SOUTH
KOREA
Rocket
launch site
60 miles
Seoul
Sources: James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Rand Corporation
© GRAPHIC NEWS
North Korea H-bomb test claim
North Korea has announced it has carried out its first hydrogen bomb test. H-bombs are much more powerful than atom bombs and use nuclear fusion, instead of fission, to trigger an uncontrolled chain reaction
Nuclear facilities
Uranium enrichment
Reactor
Suspected
enrichment site
Research
Weapon testing
Nuclear
reprocessing
Rocket launch site
Punggye-ri, 01:30GMT: 5.1-magnitude quake
detected – similar to three previous atom bomb tests
in 2013 (5.1), 2009 (4.5) and 2006 (4.1)
CHINA
Yongjori
Kanggye
NORTH
KOREA
Taechon
Tonghae
Chonmasan
Hagap
Sea of Japan
(East Sea)
Sohae
Yongbyon
Pakchon
Demilitarized
Zone
Pyongyang
Yellow Sea
(West Sea)
100km
SOUTH
KOREA
60 miles
Seoul
Sources: James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Rand Corporation
© GRAPHIC NEWS
North Korea H-bomb test claim
North Korea has announced it has carried out its first hydrogen bomb test. H-bombs are much more powerful than atom bombs and use nuclear fusion, instead of fission, to trigger an uncontrolled chain reaction
Nuclear facilities
Reactor
Research
Nuclear reprocessing
Uranium enrichment
Suspected enrichment site
Weapon testing
Rocket launch site
Punggye-ri, 01:30GMT: 5.1-magnitude quake detected –
similar to three previous atom
bomb tests in 2013 (5.1), 2009 (4.5) and 2006 (4.1)
100km
60 miles
Sohae
Kanggye
Yongjori
Chonmasan
Taechon
NORTH
KOREA
Hagap
Tonghae
Yongbyon
Demilitarized
Zone
Pyongyang
Sea of
Japan
(East
Sea)
Pakchon
SOUTH
KOREA
Seoul
Sources: James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Rand Corporation
© GRAPHIC NEWS
NORTH KOREA
Scepticism over North Korea “H-bomb” claim
January 6, 2016 - North Korea has announced it has carried out its first hydrogen bomb test. H-bombs use fusion in a chain reaction that results in a far more powerful explosion than the fission blast generated by an atom bomb.
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“This weapon was probably the size of the U.S. Hiroshima bomb but this was not a hydrogen bomb. It was fission technology,” Bruce Bennett, a senior defence analyst with the Rand Corporation told the BBC.
“The bang they should have gotten would have been 10 times greater than what they got,” Bennett said.