Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...analytic reports of the Russian nuclear tests, found that the scientists of the two nations agreed that the Communists had made substantial progress. President Kennedy told Macmillan that it may be necessary for the U.S. to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere. Although he is under strong ban-the-bomb pressure at home. Macmillan endorsed U.S. atmospheric tests...
...signal ever comes, each Minuteman will blast out of its silo and, carrying a hydrogen warhead with over 50 times the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb, set out for a target up to 6,300 miles away. That prospect should make any potential aggressor think twice before launching an attack against...
...earth waves were recorded by seismographs near Tokyo, 6,000 miles away. Uppsala, Sweden (5,200 miles), Sodankyla, Finland (5,000 miles), and Fairbanks, Alaska (3,000 miles) also detected the explosion, and all the stations recorded the "first motion," the outward push that is characteristic of bomb waves and can distinguish them from natural earthquake waves...
...seismologists were well prepared; they had been told the instant when Gnome would explode. Still, the detection of so small a bomb at so great a distance without special instruments will surely revive the controversy between scientists who believe that clandestine underground tests can be detected and those who think that there is no use trying...
...will be helped by a network of ultrasensitive seismographs that the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey has begun to install in 65 countries strung around the globe. Officially, those seismographs are there to record the world's earthquakes, but there is no way to keep them from detecting bomb waves also...