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Within 30 seconds of the nuclear blast last Wednesday, a phone rang in the control room 30 miles away. Soviet Scientist Viktor Mikhailov picked it up. He punched the air to register glee at receiving precise information on the bomb yield; the control room burst into applause. The underground test the group was celebrating, however, was American, held at remote Pahute Mesa, Nev. Seven Soviets were in the control room to gauge whether measuring devices accurately calculated how powerful the explosion had been...
From Mandalay in the central plain to Moulmein on the Andaman Sea, Burma burst into flames last week, the spark provided by protest and bloodshed, the oxygen by rumor. In Sagaing, a city of 70,000 in the center of the country, security forces opened up with shotguns on a crowd of 5,000 that was converging on a police station, and 31 people were reported killed. In the suburbs of Rangoon, the capital, three policemen were reported to have been beheaded by enraged mobs. Word of mutinies by military units in the north and east flickered through the country...
...Soviet Union renewed talks on limiting chemical weapons. "The Soviets are just as worried about proliferation of chemical weapons as the United States," says an American official. Last year, in a burst of glasnost, the Soviets admitted to stockpiles of "no more than 50,000 tons of chemical warfare agents." (U.S. officials estimate that the Soviets have stockpiles well in excess of that amount.) More significantly, Moscow acceded last August to U.S. demands for on-site inspections of chemical weapons depots. Two months later, the Soviets were host to a delegation of Western military officials, who toured a plant...
...burst in the air it would be spread over a large area but it is all in one area," he said. But he said the far-flung wing was "a puzzle to investigators...
...raged on the trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange for six years. The Japanese call it the age soba, or rising market, ascent has been dizzying: the 225-stock Nikkei index -- Japan's equivalent Dow Jones industrial average -- has surged 400% in value since beginning its bullish burst. The $3.5 trillion now invested in the Tokyo market makes it world's largest. Even the devastation wrought by last October's global stock only temporarily dampened the spirits of Tokyo traders. Although the Dow is now 12% lower than it was before the crash, the Nikkei has risen 6% above...