As all the news sources are saying the explosion that was detected in North Korea today was equivalent to less than a kilo tone of TNT I’m asking the question was it a nuclear device? We won’t know this answer until some form of radioactivity can be measured from the test. Not a whole bunch is released from an underground test so it could be that Kim Jong-il and his boys are pulling a fast one. At any rate I’d like to think that this is the case. At least the new prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, visited China and has at least gotten them to agree that North Korea having nuclear arms is a bad thing.