Jeffrey LewisNorth Korea's Nuclear Weapons May Weigh 650-750 KG








  1. J. (History)

    You know, I’ve always been pissed that no one acknowledges that Scarborough published classified information and that he was not pillaried for that. I even called the FBI and the DOD IG to tell them, and no action. Just unbelievable. I should do a post on the CB stuff he put in there. Funny thing was, he didn’t print the Iraq CBW section – just about everyone else is in there though.

  2. Jeffrey Lewis

    One reader asks “Is 650 kg heavy? what does that mean in terms of missile range?”

    650-750 kg is the bare minimum to place a warhead on a Taepo Dong 2. See my post on the subject.

  3. John Field (History)

    If you didn’t care how much plutonium you use, why wouldn’t it be possible to build a linear implosion setup slightly boron poisoned to be auto-catalytic – to reduce the implosion time and quality constraints somewhat, AND end up with an extremely lightweight warhead overall?

    It would mean that north korea would only be able to build perhaps 3 bombs instead of 6 maybe, but I think it would allow them to use their missiles.

    am I mistaken?

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