Maybe it was a gas explosion, or a fuel-air-bomb test, or a rocket engine blew up. A nuclear explosion would have created a gamma-ray burst and that would have been monitored from orbit. But who knows who is really telling the truth here …

gas explosion, or a fuel-air-bomb test:

MOAB (Mother of All Bombs) does and can produce mushroom clouds.
A string of them unleashed over a 21 mile stretch can and will be visible to eyes in the sky.
More to that, MOAB’s are powerfull enough to make holes we call craters.

In fact, CNN had just presented viewer’s opinions and arguments
that gas explosions and forest fire don’t produce mushroom clouds and that the Pentagon
do know what it is but keeping mute about it for God knows why…

More hypothesis: A harmless (no collateral damage) event that
even the mighty Kim Jong himself is scratching his head over at this very moment and
wondering “if it might be a warning shot” from God knows who???

I’d keep all possibilities open until the truth has been proven beyond a doubt.

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Heck, Jane’s gets most of their information from the net anyway, so I’d rate Janes and CMF as equivalent.

:rolleyes:

Here’s where I’d categorize/rate Jane’s:

A publisher that specializes in military materials and subject matters
in the same class as that of “Life Magazine” while CMF can be compared to that
of publications such as Popular Science and Mechanics Illustrated, etc.

In other words: Jane’s have a vast archive, but not very current….

:rolleyes:

CNN on the TV did not mention forest fires.

They showed SAT pics on tv..could not spot clouds or forest…. ?

must be the silo near by??? USA would be making all the noise if it really was nuke. Pak tested nukes “under the mountains” and USA knew they tested atleast 3…thats what i heard when CNN first broke the news. Now this one was out in open….so Americans know it wasnt a nuke. and dont trust CNN all the time 😉 they reported shuttle incomming at speed of light…mightve been a typo..but who knows :rolleyes:

Theoretically and my way of looking at it:

A “covert preemption” of NK’s nuclear R&D facilities utilizing B-2s and Nighthawks recently
dispatched to Guam is not out of the question. If such an operation indeed took place, I’m sure all of Kim’s
neighbours would have been informed and are maybe in on it though discretions maintained.

Could there be much more to this than that which meets the eye???

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😮

Hypothetically:

Unless the test is deep underground; “unless it’s a repeat of Chernobyl”; or, “unless
those are MOAB’s (??????) delivered by the B-2’s dispatched from Guam”; then, I doubt it the
North Koreans are as stupid as to detonate one of those mothers above ground at home.

Logic: The nuclear fallouts are too close to home!!!

Most likely sites of detonation, if any, my opinion: Underground,
as how Pakistan had done it. Or, some Island under the jurisdiction of
Pyongyang either in the Sea of Japan or in the Yellow Sea somewhere betwwen China
and Korea — exactly how the French did it in the South pacific…

😮

:diablo:

Craziest trick in the book and very obvious…

But, I have to give him/her credit for his/her imagination and for trying…

:diablo:

Tom Clancy really isn’t an idiot… Although indeed sometimes he makes “mistakes” by forgetting certain aspects like the long-range S300PMU versions in “The Bear and the Dragon” or by not really exploiting his sometimes very excellent strategic ideas (like not placing his bombers on Iceland in “Red Storm Rising”.) Or Inventing new stuff, like his Ghostrider plane in Red Storm Rising.
But I have to conclude that I can only adjust and go further on his nice ideas and that it would be very hard for me to really come up with such a plan from scratch myself. Hence I consider him very well informed and nice to read.

On another note:

Let’s just say that if CSI is the driving force behind the rage people have in our universities
today in the field of ferensic science (proven fact); and, if Steven Spielberg is the driving force that
fuels the interest that people have in the cosmos and directly the field of space exploration; then, Tom Clancy’s
visions of modern warefare is an eye opener to what’s military and what’s the realities of war.

Is he an idiot??? The CIA certainly don’t think so!

:diablo: