Nuclear warheads UN: US analysts estimated their number

Armed North Korean army at the beginning of 2018 can be from 10 to 20 nuclear warheads. This assumption is made in published in the pages of the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists is the research program Director of nuclear information at the Federation of American scientists Hans Kristensen with his colleague Robert Norris.

“The authors carefully suggest that North Korea could produce fissile material to create a 30 to 60 nuclear warheads, and it was collected from 10 to 20”, – said in a summary of a broad analytical material.

According to experts, the majority of ready warheads the DPRK are charges equivalent to 10-20 kilotons of TNT.

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The main question about the nuclear weapons programme of North Korea is whether it was possible for her to create a fully ready-to-use nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles, which after a hard returning from space into the atmosphere to explode there and then, where and when conceived by the military of the DPRK.

“If it hasn’t happened yet, the presence of Pyongyang’s fully functional nuclear Arsenal is only a matter of time,” concluded the analysts.

Read more about the Arsenal of the army of the DPRK you can read and see the table here.

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