Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev's talk of a loo-megaton bomb, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said grimly: "We know that the Soviet Union's stocks of nuclear weapons already suffice to destroy our whole country, to destroy all Europe . . . This is the way the world is, and I ask you all to see the world as it is. The Soviet Union also knows full well that if it should in fact come to nuclear war, Soviet Russia will also be eradicated...
...They did. Since the day the conference started, nearly three years ago, neither the U.S. nor Britain has exploded a bomb...
When did the Russians start testing? The Russians exploded their first nuclear device in September 1949, only four years and two months after the first U.S. test at Alamogordo, N. Mex.. in July 1945. The Russian test involved a primitive fission bomb similar to the two U.S. bombs used in World War II, but the Russians must have started work immediately on the more advanced hydrogen bomb. On Aug. 12. 1953. they exploded their first test H-bomb, only nine months after the first U.S. H-bomb test at Eniwetok Island in the Pacific...
...Russians build a 100-megaton bomb? There is no reason why not. Increasing the power of an H-bomb is not a simple matter of adding more of the explosive ingredients; careful designing and testing are called for too. But U.S. experts agree that the U.S. could easily build "gigaton" (billion-ton) bombs if there were a need for them. So could the Russians...
...many nuclear bombs have the Russians? They have too many. In the early years of the Atomic Age. it was difficult to turn out primitive A-bombs in quantity because they were made of plutonium or uranium 235. and both elements require enormous plants for production. The advent of the H-bomb was a big break for the Russians because H-bomb ingredients (deuterium, lithium, etc.) are comparatively cheap and easy to get. Chances are that the Russians have turned most of their plutonium and U-235 into detonators for H-bombs. This should give them enough nuclear explosives...