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Perhaps North Korea can send a “small” nuclear weapon by ballistic missile?

flag-N-KoreaPentagon Says Nuclear Missile Is in Grasp for North Korea NYT By THOM SHANKER, DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT  April 11, 2013 WASHINGTON — A new assessment of North Korea’s nuclear capability conducted by the Pentagon’s intelligence arm has concluded for the first time, with “moderate confidence,” that the country has learned how to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be delivered by a ballistic missile.

 The assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been distributed to senior administration officials and members of Congress, cautions that the weapon’s “reliability will be low,” apparently a reference to the North’s difficulty in developing accurate missiles or, perhaps, to the huge technical challenges of designing a warhead that can survive the rigors of flight and detonate on a specific target.

It is unclear whether other American intelligence agencies agree with the assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has primary responsibility for monitoring the missile capabilities of adversary nations. In the case of Iraq, a decade ago, the agency was among those that argued most vociferously that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons…… http://cleantechnica.com/2013/04/11/asia-pacific-renewable-energy-market-to-hit-535-2-gw-by-2020-globaldata-report/#syHiBFsTlrz1xsM2.99

April 12, 2013 - Posted by | general

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