Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons are a complex technology to assemble then add to it a delivery system such as an ICBM and you have a technology which takes expertise that exceeds what most nations have. Russia got its head start by use of spies in the Manhattan Project. China via Russia. Now we have North Korea and we wonder.

The tables below depict at a high level the elements of an ICBM nuclear weapon. It is a real high level but raises questions. The entries are based upon my assessment of the potentials and can be referenced back to multiple reliable sources. (For example see: The Los Alamos Primer, Serber, Univ. Cal Press, 1992) The entries reflect my personal opinion based upon my prior exposure during the CTBT discussions in the late 1970s.

These Tables depict the high level elements of such an integrate system. I have not done work in this since the late 70s on the CTBT with the Soviets but one suspects that not a great deal has changed.  

The question is; has our Government entities performed such an analysis and if so then one suspects that the threat can be mitigated by asserting who supplied what. North Korea is incapable of many of the elements needed. Just not enough people or lacking in fundamental elements. Thus a threat from them is athreat from those facilitating them.

It is worth an analysis. So where is the press on this one?