North Korea continues to fire missiles into the ocean
In the past few days, North Korea has been carrying out projectile tests by firing said projectiles into the sea off its east coast. South Korea has urged North Korea to cease "tension-causing acts", but North Korea has continued to test, maintaining that the launches are "routine tests". North Korea also maintains that it is simply because it is North Korea doing the testing that anyone is taking any note of it. It is still unclear whether or not North Korea is firing the short-range missiles that they are known to posses, or if these might be tests of a more advanced large-bore artillery rocket. Should North Korea have developed the large-bore rockets, this would show a continued interest in the development of new weapon systems. Still, no matter whether it is the missiles or the rockets, this still does not present the same level of technological threat as seeing the development of long range missiles or the launch of a satellite would.
This is directly connected our discussion in class today of military superiority. We discussed how every nation wished to have the most powerful, the most devastating, the most awe-inspiring weapons. For many years, North Korea has been behind in this arms race. Now, it seems, that they are eager to catch up. However, short-range missiles or even artillery rockets are still fairly low rungs on this ladder, with its culmination at the creation of nuclear weaponry. Fortunately, we believe that North Korea is fairly far from the creation of either the actual weapons or the delivery system. And even when the North Koreans reach this level of weaponry, they will still be hopelessly out gunned, as the U.S. now has fusion weapons well over 1000 times as powerful as the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a bit of a plus, there is no theoretical limit to the power of a hydrogen bomb. Therefore, you could, theoretically, build one to vaporize the Earth, or the Solar System, or even the Universe, ( though the modern ones would only instantly vaporize all of the water out of San Francisco bay).
This is directly connected our discussion in class today of military superiority. We discussed how every nation wished to have the most powerful, the most devastating, the most awe-inspiring weapons. For many years, North Korea has been behind in this arms race. Now, it seems, that they are eager to catch up. However, short-range missiles or even artillery rockets are still fairly low rungs on this ladder, with its culmination at the creation of nuclear weaponry. Fortunately, we believe that North Korea is fairly far from the creation of either the actual weapons or the delivery system. And even when the North Koreans reach this level of weaponry, they will still be hopelessly out gunned, as the U.S. now has fusion weapons well over 1000 times as powerful as the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a bit of a plus, there is no theoretical limit to the power of a hydrogen bomb. Therefore, you could, theoretically, build one to vaporize the Earth, or the Solar System, or even the Universe, ( though the modern ones would only instantly vaporize all of the water out of San Francisco bay).