US nuclear commander says assuming N.Korea tested hydrogen bomb
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The US general who oversees America's nuclear forces said on Thursday he was making the assumption that North Korea did in fact test a hydrogen bomb on September 3, crossing a key threshold in its weapons development efforts.
"When I look at the thing that size, I as a military officer assume that it's a hydrogen bomb. I have to," Air Force General John Hyten, head of the US military's Strategic Command, told a small group of reporters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
"I'm not a nuclear scientist, so I can't tell you this is how it worked, this is what the bomb was. ... But I can tell you the size that we observed and saw tends to me to indicate that it was a hydrogen bomb and I have to figure out what the right response is with our allies as to that kind of event."
