Nuclear Experiment Gone Bad

Reason for Huge Blast in North Korea Remains Unclear

A massive explosion in North Korea brought new tensions to a region already uneasy about North Korea’s ambitions to become a nuclear weapons state and raised suspicions that Kim Jong-il may be trying to bring additional pressure to bear on the Bush administration during the election campaign…

US officials are saying they don’t think it was the detonation of a nuclear weapon. If it was the result of a nuclear experiment gone bad wouldn’t that be even worse?