The North Korean nuke is not probably very technical, but it might work as very good deterrent

(Source: CNN)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

When we are talking about the technology, what is used in the missiles of the North Korea, we must say that the diagrams of those systems are available in all libraries in the west and many Internet-pages. The missile of the North Korea seems like some kind of copy of the Titan missile from the 1950’s. The rocket of the longest range missiles of that country might be liquid fuel systems, but the smaller might use the solid fuel.

The problem with solid fuel rockets is that they need very special chemical industry, and that’s why liquid fuel rocket is more easy to produce. The liquid fuel rockets normally can use any kind of hydrocarbon and oxygenated for the fuel, and that’s why German scientists choose the liquid fuel for V-2 rocket fuel. The solid fuel is more effective in missile technology because that fuel can store inside the missile, and it gives missile shorter reaction time.


There is also the liquid fuel combinations what has the capacity to store inside the rocket, but the problem of those fuels is that they are very corrosive. The nitric acid and hydrazine are the very popular combination of the fuel, what is used in missiles, but the problem is that those components are very poisonous and corrosive.


The main rule is that if the rocket has more than one motor, it will be liquid fuel system. The structure of liquid fuel rocket is more complicated than solid fuel systems, and the problem is that is that. if there is oxygen in the fuel tank, it will cause the explosion.


And the pressure in the motor firing chamber will rise very high, and that is the reason, why liquid fuel rockets must equip with the powerful pump system, what pulls the fuel with a higher pressure that there is in the firing chamber. If the pressure would be less than in the firing chamber will the fire sucked in the tank, and the result might be the explosion. And that was the problem also with many other rockets.

The rocket is not the only part of nuclear weapons. Also, the guidance system is very important part of this very complicated weapon systems. North Korea might use the inertial guidance, where the gyroscope will guide the missile to the target. And that system needs two points for the sharp guidance. The beginning point of the trajectory must determine sharp because that makes the missile the capacity to strike with high accuracy. If the launch point determination is not sharp, that decreases the missiles capacity to strike against hardened targets like missile silos and command bunkers, but if the state uses that weapon for terror r strikes against the civilian targets, it will not need great accuracy.

I don’t know how the North Korea will detonate their nuclear warhead. They probably use the impact, barometric or the time detonators to explode the nuclear warheads. And the problem with that equipment is that I don’t know what kind of security equipment those warheads have.


 But the other problem is, that if some terrorists will get that warhead in their hands, they might build the pollution bomb with that plutonium. They must only explode dynamite in the crushed bite of plutonium, and that will deliver the radioactive material around the area. Or they might able to explode the implosion device if the security is not enough. The problem with those people is, that they will not care about themselves.