Endgame Viable

According to FOX News, the U.S. is now confirming that North Korea did in fact detonate a nuclear device the other day. (There was some question about it before.) They say it was around 1 kiloton, though, which is really small for a nuke. (For comparison, Hiroshima was 13-16 kilotons and Nagasaki was 20-22 kilotons, and the B83, currently the most powerful U.S. nuke, is 1.2 _mega_tons, or 1,000 times more powerful.) That may sound like it’s no big deal, and from a military standpoint, it isn’t. But from a maximum-terrorist-bang-for-the-buck standpoint, it sounds pretty grim for people living in major cities around the world. One wonders if the North Korean nuke is as small as our Davy Crockett nukes deployed in Germany during the Cold War. It looks like it would be pretty easy to hide one of those, or get one across a border or something.

Thomas Krehbiel writes The Krehbiel Strikes Back, a moderate commentary on news, media, politics, and culture. — Virginians, Vote No.