Breaking news - Mushroom cloud?????????

[GalvestonDuck]

Go to off-topic - urgent need for confirmation on this!!!!!!!!

[yoda]

I am doing so... there are reports on the wires and on some websites.... they are coming in slowly....could have been a nuke test by North Korea.....

[dennis1x1]

2 days old = breaking?

looks like another train accident...and any large explosion produces a mushroom cloud...doesnt have to be nuclear.

[gatorbabe79]

Yahoo news has it

[montrealboy]

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiap ... index.html

[Wnghs2007]

Yahoo news has it

A 2.5 mile wide Mushroom cloud from a train explosion????????

[rxdoc]

A train accident does not produce a 2 to 2 1/2 mile wide mushroom cloud and a visible crater by satellite. But then again, if a train wobbled west...

Nevermind

[dennis1x1]

guess you havent seen sat pics of the last train explosion in north korea......they are unreal.

[gatorbabe79]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040912/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_explosion&cid=516&ncid=716

[miamijaaz]

A train accident does not produce a 2 to 2 1/2 mile wide mushroom cloud and a visible crater by satellite. But then again, if a train wobbled west...

Nevermind

west?? that train definitely wobbled NW! lol.

[GalvestonDuck]

2 days old = breaking?

looks like another train accident...and any large explosion produces a mushroom cloud...doesnt have to be nuclear.

Where are you getting that it's two days old? Just came through on my cell phone as a breaking news text message.

[shaner]

Because the incident actually happened on the 9th.

[LSUChamps0002]

I have no idea what this incident actually was, but in such a small world as we livein now, due to echnology and the media, it is amazing to me that thiis story is breaking on the wires tonight, since it did in fact happen on thursday.

I did not hear about it until tonight. Am I just late to this, or what?

[Tri-State_1925]

Here is something from today's/tomorrow's (I believe) NY Times...a little more detail

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/inter ... &position=

[Sean in New Orleans]

I have no idea what this incident actually was, but in such a small world as we livein now, due to echnology and the media, it is amazing to me that thiis story is breaking on the wires tonight, since it did in fact happen on thursday.

I did not hear about it until tonight. Am I just late to this, or what?

Everybody just found out---I'm sure our government kept this quiet until they could get the facts straight. I have the utmost in confidence that our country will handle this properly....the war on terror continues....

[dixiebreeze]

Check out: http://www.freerepublic.com or http://www.drudgereport.com for more info.

[anjou]

Here's a thread about the whole thing:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=118125

Still unknown/debatable whether it was a nuke test or not... but it did occur on some big North Korean notable anniversary. And reportedly it occurred at or near the site of an underground missile testing facility.

[HurricaneBill]

I read on Google news that a U.S. official has said that it was NOT a nuclear explosion, but possibly a forest fire (?).

[chakalakasp]

Here's a thread about the whole thing:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=118125

Still unknown whether it was a nuke test or not... but it did occur on some big North Korean notable anniversary.

Questions for meteorologists... I stress, a HYPOTHETICAL question. If something went boom on 9-8 U.S. time at the north end of North Korea, when would any particles from said boom waft to L.A.? Seriously.

(I think NK is like 13 hours or something like that ahead of the U.S. East Coast.)

Of course. We have high altitude sensing devices that scoop air and look for just such particles, as they provide intel on nuclear testing and on nuclear explosion characteristics. However, the amount in the air is negligible in terms of health effects. Remember, the U.S. detonated scores of groundbursts in the U.S. Southwest, and this had little effect on the American population (with the exception of those living in New Mexico)

[GalvestonDuck]

Mmmkay, when Osama bin Laden's body is found and it's determined that he died 5 days prior, I won't post it as breaking news because it's "5 days old."

Hey, it's North Korea. Remember -- it takes DAYS for news to get out of that country.