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...week the U.S. learned some details of lithium hydride (or equivalent) explosions that had been set off-by the Russians and by the Americans. It learned that the force and horror of atomic weapons had entered a new dimension. It saw by television that the first full-dress H-blast (Operation Ivy) had turned the mid-Pacific sandspit named Elugelab into a submarine crater. While the shock and the prayer that Dr. Thirring had felt were both present in the communication of the news, the U.S. was given-and received-the information as calmly as it might hear...
...substantially before we did . . . We now fully know we possess no monopoly of capability in this awesome field." The current series of U.S. H-bomb tests had thus far been successful "and enormous potential has been added to our military posture." As to the reports that the March 1 blast (TIME. March 22) had got out of hand, no such thing was true-"the yield was about double that of the calculated estimate-a margin of error not incompatible with a totally new weapon...
...ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The test, announced by the Pentagon on April 4, and dubbed "Divine Strake," is designed to determine how a bomb might penetrate fortified underground bunkers. It will be the biggest open-air chemical blast ever conducted at the Nevada Test site - 280 times more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. "The concern of downwind communities is ?Here we go again,?" said plaintiff Stephen Erickson of the Salt Lake City-based Citizens Education Project. Though not a nuclear test, Erickson is afraid...
...have caused tens of thousands of cancers in residents of Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Idaho. Although the findings are disputed, the 1990 federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act provided compassionate payments to some victims. In announcing the test, James Tegnelia, director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, told reporters the blast "is the first time in Nevada that you?ll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons." Later, after a rebuke from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Tegnelia retracted the description. A Pentagon spokesman said the test would occur at least three miles from areas...
...Some tourists, perhaps inured by terrorism spanning the globe in recent years, seemed eager to take a stand against the violence by not budging. American Amy Widener, 41, was dining near the blast site with her father and infant son when the explosions sent panic through the area. But she said they would not change their plans to explore the Red Sea's famous coral reefs. "If I go home, the terrorists win," she said. Scuba instructor Anya Kozlova, 25, from Moscow, arrived a year ago to experience the splendors of the Sinai. She went diving in search of body...