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Re: by tomrod on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:44PM (#10848349)
Text isn't loading, says its on Bloomberg Terminal.

I'm not well schooled in nuclear bombs. What's the payload, how does this compare to their previous tests, and what's next?

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Re: by Mikeb85 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:50PM (#10848378)
A regular 'atomic' bomb is a fission reaction. A hydrogen bomb uses a fission bomb to cause a nuclear fusion reaction. H-bomb = much more powerful.
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Re: by gizmo686 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @11:15PM (#10848488)
Most of the energy from large H-bombs still comes from fission.

You can surround the fusion stage with natural uranium. While natural uranium has to much U-238 to undergo a runaway chain reaction, the fission reaction emits enough high energy neutrons to induce a significant fission reaction.

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Re: by dpark on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:52PM (#10848388)
This link seems to work: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-06/north-kore...

Here's a New York Times report: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/world/asia/north-korean-tr...

No real detail, though. Artificial earthquake detected. North Korea apparently claims a successful hydrogen bomb test.

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Re: by cnnrjcbsn on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:56PM (#10848403)
You may enjoy this: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Teller.html
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