North Korea says it has conducted hydrogen bomb test - CNN.com

North Korea says it has conducted hydrogen bomb test - CNN.com: "Norsar, a Norway-based group that monitors nuclear tests, said Tuesday's quake was comparable in strength with readings from North Korea's most recent plutonium test, in 2013.

Norsar estimated the yield of Tuesday's blast to be less than 10 kilotons, or 10,000 tons of TNT, smaller than those of the atomic weapons used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thermonuclear weapons yields typically are measured in millions of tons of TNT.

Yet no one besides North Korea reported the test. A senior U.S. official told CNN it could take days to get scientific data to determine if there was a test, if it was successful and if it indeed was of a hydrogen bomb.

Mike Chinoy, a fellow at the University of Southern California's U.S.-China Institute, noted that Kim hinted a few weeks ago that his country was working on a hydrogen bomb. But just because Pyongyang talked about and claimed it doesn't make its true. In fact, there's little about North Korea that can be said definitively beyond that is a poor, isolated, mysterious nation that talks a big game but hasn't gone to battle yet."



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