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...secret information, read certain published reports that could be found in any physics library. Going about the scientist's business of mating known facts to breed new facts, Dr. Thirring made and published calculations leading to the conclusion that out of lithium hydride could be constructed a bomb many times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. At the end of his austere equations, Dr. Thirring's scientific article flamed up into a prayer: "God protect the country over which a six-ton bomb of lithium hydride will ever explode...
...nine-minute prepared statement, Strauss noted that "there is good reason to believe" that the Russians had gone to work on a thermonuclear bomb "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...
...Western Shoshone Indian tribe and representatives of two Salt Lake citizens groups have filed suit against the U.S. Defense Department to stop the June 2 detonation of a 700-ton 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...
...Eyewitnesses told TIME that after sunset about 7 p.m. a bomb apparently placed in a sack exploded in front of the Al Capone restaurant. A few seconds later, another explosion occurred in front of the Neptune Hotel 100 feet across a footbridge on the promenade, which runs along Dahab's windswept beach. Another few seconds later, 100 yards further down the walkway past the Tota Dance Bar, a third bomb exploded in front of the Mona Lisa jewelry shop. Mohammed Ali, who runs a computer shop on the promenade, lost two friends amid the carnage, both waiters at beachfront restaurants...
...product of the pressure on the movement to distance itself from terrorism from even those Arab regimes that have stepped in to fund the Palestinian government. But Hamas is not typically prone to do the bidding of others, and could just as easily have remained silent on a bomb attack in Egypt. And viewed against the Hamas reponse to Osama bin Laden's latest tape, it appears to suggest a growing rift between the standard-bearers of Islamist politics in the Palestinian territories and the jihadists-without-borders element who would turn the Palestinian cause into a vehicle for their...