Could an accident with a missle start a war?

[longship]

10. But this is apparently a new MRBM.

And their past tests have been a bit dodgy and nobody outside the DPRK knows whether they are going where they are supposed to go.

We kind of know that their nukes are not very good, plus weaponizing them is a question, let alone putting them on a missile. AFAIK, they haven't had a single successful test. The last one apparently had only a 6 KTon yield and produced no apparent chain reaction daughter products. It was a U core, which is pretty simple and they couldn't even get that to work.

So, who knows what they have.


But you are correct, the people within the putative range of this thing should take precautions. But people in Austin, TX should sleep soundly. The US Navy has assets in the area, too.