{"id":101206,"date":"2020-01-22T07:33:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/north-koreas-nuclear-bomb-is-much-bigger-than-previously-thought"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:33:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:33:30","slug":"north-koreas-nuclear-bomb-is-much-bigger-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/north-koreas-nuclear-bomb-is-much-bigger-than-previously-thought","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s Nuclear Bomb Is Much Bigger than Previously Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-koreas-nuclear-bomb-is-much-bigger-than-previously-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new look at 2017 test data reveals an explosion 16 times as powerful than the one that leveled Hiroshima.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists looking anew at a 2017 North <\/strong>Korean nuclear test discovered that the explosion was likely about two-thirds more powerful than U.S. officials previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier data put the yield somewhere between <a href=\"https:\/\/news.agu.org\/press-release\/2017-north-korean-nuclear-test-order-of-magnitude-larger-than-previous-tests-new-study-finds\/\">30 and 300 kilotons<\/a>; the U.S. intelligence community said <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2017\/09\/us-intelligence-north-koreas-sixth-test-was-a-140-kiloton-advanced-nuclear-device\/\">140 kilotons<\/a>. That was already the most powerful device tested by North Korea, topping a 2016 test by about an order of magnitude. But a new look at seismological data suggests that the blast was between 148 and 328 kilotons, and probably around 250 kilotons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new look at 2017 test data reveals an explosion 16 times as powerful than the one that leveled Hiroshima. Scientists looking anew at a 2017 North Korean nuclear test discovered that the explosion was likely about two-thirds more powerful than U.S. officials previously thought. Earlier data put the yield somewhere between 30 and 300 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}