Bomb Explosion Test purposes in North Korea

A few days ago, we have watched the news of the latest nuclear test North Korea conducted a nuclear test after the last occurring in 2009. More than six energy kiloton underground nuclear installations, 32 kilometers from the city Hoemun. The power of the blast reminds us that the country is a nuclear state and still dangerous. But for all the disaster diplomacy is created from nuclear activities, it is very difficult to predict what makes North Korea tested a nuclear bomb. For a country that has nuclear energy, what are the benefits of an explosion?

First of all, the loss is the nuclear bomb is dangerous. Unlike nuclear processes, nuclear explosions are very difficult to be kept confidential. Countries that are developing nuclear energy often hid its nuclear program, are also available ingredients derived from espionage and the black market. The test bomb was made all the secrecy uncovered. In the case of North Korea, we already know a rough idea of ​​the explosion, and scientists are looking for the scattered particles in the air that can be detected if it was a bomb uranium or plutonium. Detail is has a heavy burden in terms of political and diplomatic, and Kim Jong Un would prefer to keep the information has not been leaked, However after the bomb test, the activity of a cover-up again is not a wise choice.

There are some explanations of this phenomenon. Every industrial products should be tested first before you are sure that the product is working, but a lot of methods that do not require the original scale explosion. Nuclear states to test individual components in the lab, or a small-scale version of the main component parts of the bomb to deliver enough explosive power to give effect damage is not great. Small-scale nuclear bomb tests can verify the nuclear reactions that occur in the absence of effects on the true scale as the shock wave.

But it can not stop anyone from blowing up nuclear bombs. Over 2000 bombing tests conducted between the beginning-the first nuclear era Manhattan Project in the United States in 1944 to the Nuclear Test Ban negotiations in 1992. Actually, America is in charge of half a 2000 test explosions happened. In the beginning, there is a valid hypothesis about the kind of nuclear test blasts: What happens to a house within 3 kilometers from the center of the explosion? What if the bomb was detonated in the atmosphere? What if detonated under water? Researchers have examined all of these, but did not get satisfactory answers, including damage to the submarine fleet underwater explosion effects. The only way is to try the actual scale.

But until the 80's, the most sought answers have dijadwab and America is still a test bombing almost every month in Nevada, Mississippi, and the Marshall Islands. Blast effects are restricted to remote islands, deserts, and the most frequent area of ​​abandoned mines, nuclear radiation can be prevented from contact with civilians. In fact, this test is not the only observer of American scientists but also the Kremlin. Americans who want to prove is whether the bombs are still working and the Pentagon can use these bombs whenever they can. Nuclear test ban negotiations only lived up to the Cold War over, and the superpowers there is nothing else to prove after that.

The purpose of nuclear test Tuesday, February 12 and is the same, more to political factors rather than technology. Even if North Korea have questions about the effects of nuclear bombs, there are way more hidden than getting the information by testing the bomb with the true scale. It is better to send the message and refresh nuclear power. The Economist says that is not predictable how much nuclear power North Korea, and whether they can launch nuclear missiles to reach American soil even Japan, politically this is not a problem. As long as North Korea is still thrilling seismograph sensors, their activities will be watched around the world.