Word: bomb
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First of the big stories to break in the hottest week of international news in years was the scandal in the White House. Then in quick succession came the overthrow in Moscow and the bomb in China. As one big story piled on top of another, about all that journalists reporting by the minute or the hour or the day could do, as one editor said (see PRESS), was "throw it at" the public. In a position to look at the news at greater length and depth, TIME correspondents around the world and writers and editors in New York...
President Johnson confirmed that the Chinese had detonated a "low-yield" atomic bomb, but cautioned that "its military significance should not be over-estimated...
Apparently the Chinese do not presently have the ability to produce large amounts of plutonium, the bomb's fissionable material. Some experts even speculated that yesterday's test device may have nearly exhausted their present supply...
...late 1960's or early 1970's, he believes that the Chinese will have perfected a medium range missle with a radius of about 1000 miles. Halperin, who is finishing a book, China and the Bomb, does not believe that the Red Chinese will possess significant intercontinental capabilities for another 10 to 15 years...
Yesterday's test caught few experts by surprise. On Sept. 29, Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced that the United States expected the Chinese to set off their first atomic bomb "in the near future...