The Belmont Club: Was North Korea testing a suitcase nuke?

The Belmont Club: Was North Korea testing a suitcase nuke?

Uhh, I hope not.

Update: Just as an aside, the above post brings previous news stories which put the suitcase nukes at a yield of only 1-kiloton.

Just to put that in perspective, if you would load up four 747's to their gills with TNT (including filling their fuel tanks), then blew that up (~2,000,000 lbs of high explosives), that would be the equivalent to what one guy can carry in a backpack nuke weighing under 100 lbs.