Ready for launch?

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3094, 2016, págs. 18-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It has been a record year for North Korea's nuclear ambitions. The secretive nation tested its fifth nuclear device last September, the second test this year and the largest so far. Remote monitoring put the underground explosion at 10 to 15 kilotons, about the size of the Hiroshima bomb. Days later, it conducted its biggest-ever test of a long-range rocket booster. The North has several times agreed to limit its nuclear plans in return for aid or security guarantees, but these deals have always fallen apart. Now the fear is it won't give up its nukes--unless it collapses, which could he worse. MacKenzie explores how much other nations should worry about Kim Jong-un's nuclear plans and what they can do to stop them.