Word: kiloton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge quantities of propane, butane and other highly flammable gasses to escape and form an atmospheric "lake." Fatefully, two passenger trains on the famed TransSiberian Railway were passing each other when the gases, ignited probably by a spark or a discarded cigarette, detonated with the force of a ten-kiloton bomb (the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima was 12.5 kilotons...
...most Congressmen detect no great excitement among their constituents about the Wright investigation. But the longer the affair drags on, and the more heavily the press and television focus on eventual public hearings, the more likely voters are to pay unfavorable attention. "This is no ten-kiloton violation," says Ted Van Dyk, a noted Washington political consultant. "But it's hard to convince the folks at home after Meese, Tower, Hart...
...struggle was lost; the crew was evacuated, and the 426-ft. Yankee I-class sub plunged 18,000 ft. to the bottom of the Atlantic some 600 miles east of Bermuda, taking with it as many as 16 SS-N-6 ballistic missiles, each tipped with two 500-kiloton nuclear warheads. But if the vessel is gone, it has not been forgotten. Since the sinking last Oct. 6, Soviet ships have watched over the site, "maintaining a nearly continuous presence," according to a Pentagon official. Sometimes a Soviet merchant ship keeps the vigil. At other times an AGI (intelligence-gathering...
...Soviet Union last week conducted its first nuclear experiment in 18 months, after saying repeatedly that it would soon resume nuclear testing because the U.S. was doing the same. The news agency TASS announced that scientists had detonated a 20-kiloton bomb in Kazakhstan, near the Chinese border...
...treaty limits by mid-November. The defense budget passed by the House of Representatives, however, would cut off money for any weapons that would cause the U.S. to exceed SALT II weapons levels. The House also demanded a halt to any nuclear testing above the level of a single kiloton...