Posted by
Team Turk on Monday, October 09, 2006 6:11:09 PM
Kansas City Star details
North Korean test.
North Korea said today it had performed its first test of a nuclear weapon, setting off an underground blast in defiance of international warnings and intense diplomatic activity.
North Korea’s nuclear test was equivalent to 550 tons of TNT, a state-run South Korean geological institute said. That is relatively small, compared with the bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, which was equivalent to 12,500 tons of TNT.