Assessing North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Capabilities: Janes Develops New Methodology
Groundbreaking analysis from Janes assesses the fissile material requirements of thermonuclear weapons likely to be in North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, providing a new way to assess the overall inventory.LONDON – Janes , the trusted global agency for open-source defence intelligence, has developed a new approach for estimating the possible size and composition of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. Using the publicly-known characteristics of thermonuclear weapons, this original methodology estimates the consumption of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in thermonuclear