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No, but experts in the field tend to believe a yield this large is explained by a hydrogen bomb:

> That means it's probably "only" a few hundred kilotons depending on depth. 8/ Still a staged TN weapon. But I need to sleep. 9/

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/90419708681554329...



Cheers, that's very interesting.

I just found this too (from 2016), which backs up what you're saying

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/science-can-tell-if-north-kore...

It seems according to that, you could only tell from the radionuclides emitted as to what type of bomb it was.

Interestingly there was a 500kt fission bomb - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_King (but I assume experts must have a particular reason for thinking the DPRK detonation was a type of hydrogen bomb).




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