Is North Korea the 9th Nation in the World with Nuclear Weapons?
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 09:01
in Physics & Chemistry
The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has riveted international attention on the threat of nuclear weapons . Kim was widely reported to have been pursuing nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles to deliver them, and he presided over a pair of nuclear bomb blast tests (confirmed by seismograph). No one outside North Korea knows whether the secretive, totalitarian nation possesses an actual warhead. And no one is quite sure where Kim's youngest son and presumed successor Kim Jong-un stands on the goal of assembling a competitive nuclear arsenal. [More]