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...colleagues will be picking up clues for weeks to come before they get the detailed answers as to what the Soviet Union actually tested and accomplished. Known is the fact that Russian tests at three different sites-northern and southern Novaya Zemlya and Semipalatinsk in the Soviet Arctic-have totaled more than 110 megatons of yield, bringing the total Russian test yield to date to about 160 megatons v. 125 megatons from known U.S. and British tests since 1946. The Soviet tests ranged from about 10 kilotons (10,000 tons of TNT) to slightly more than 50 megatons (50 million...
...victims. Khrushchev evidently hoped that he had succeeded in laying Stalin's ghost once and for all; that it would no longer roam the Soviet land with a clanking of chains reminiscent of Lubianka prison, or eerie moans recalling the falsely accused thousands who died in Arctic mines and labor camps. Soviet newspapers covered Stalin's move with identical four-line reports buried on the back page...
...recent months photographers have followed missionaries in the Amazon jungles and in the Arctic for TIME, have flown over and photographed the engineering beauty of the American Road, and captured the delight of children witnessing in Manhattan's Central Park a new zoo devoted to children. Many magazines, of course (though no other newsmagazine), send their photographers to faraway places. But TIME's purpose is different from most: it seeks to add a new dimension to news coverage by the use of color. Thus TIME's eight pages of color in August on Southeast Asia showed...
...Iron Curtain's other side, nations close to the test site, or in the path of fallout, took other precautions. The Finns laid off reindeer meat for fear arctic herds had been contaminated. Swedes were engaged in a wild goose chase to make sure migrating flocks had not been affected. In West Germany and Britain, the governments announced plans to distribute powdered milk for children if dairy supplies showed dangerous radioactivity. Japan reported record levels of radioactivity in rainwater, took extensive precautions to ensure that polluted fall rains would not endanger food or water supplies...
After a few days delay to conceal the workings of their detection systems, U.S. authorities began last week to release a few details about the 30-megaton nuclear test in the Soviet Arctic. A 30-megaton explosion is not easy to hide. The island of Novaya Zemlya adjoins the international waters of the Barents Sea, and U.S. airplanes were presumably cruising near the Soviet test range. U.S. submarines were probably watching through periscopes, just as Russian submarines keep track of U.S. rocket shots from Cape Canaveral. Besides such eye and camera witnesses, the U.S. had a varied array of instruments...