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...Chinese invented explosives in the 9th century A.D., and the rocket 200 years later. Last week, a millennium after those breakthroughs, China announced it had brought both weapons together for the first time. Over the wind-whipped desert of Takla Makan, Peking claimed, a Chinese Communist A-bomb was carried aloft by a Chinese Communist missile and exploded some 500 miles away...
Major Advance? What, precisely, had Peking wrought? Nothing more than Western intelligence sources had predicted all along: the Chinese have built a short-range nuclear missile. The Chinese bomb last week was a 20-kiloton device, about the same size as the Hiroshima bomb and considerably less powerful than the third Chinese A-bomb (130 kilotons) detonated last May. There was conflicting opinion among Western scientists as to whether or not the bomb had been reduced by its builders to the tiny, rugged component parts needed to carry a big bang in a small warhead. If the bomb was "miniaturized...
Some unpleasantness was inevitable. After Aug. 6 was set as the date, the Hiroshima World Friendship Center, an organization of Japanese and American pacifists, protested that this was the anniversary of the first A-bomb raid. Luci's rumored reaction may be apocryphal, but it is not atypical: "O.K., how about December 7?" Another outfit, calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee for the August 6 Protest Against the War in Viet Nam, announced its intention to picket the National Shrine and the White House throughout the wedding celebration...
...Hatter nuptial dinner, with Danny Kaye personally whipping up his special seven-course Chinese feed for the couple. Next morning, on they zoomed to Tahiti for a get-away-from-everything idyl-only to find half the French press corps camped in Papeete for the latest French A-bomb tests. So now the honeymooners chartered a yacht and sailed away among the islands, feasting on roast pig and gazing at the mushroom clouds...
Died. General William H. Blanchard, 50, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff and No. 2 in command, a heavy-bomber pilot who pioneered in the daringly low-level B-29 raids against Japan in World War II, and as Curtis LeMay's operations officer planned the first A-bomb drop on Hiroshima, then spent 15 years helping to build the Strategic Air Command, all of which earned him four stars at the age of 48; of a heart attack; in Washington...