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...sense, practical consequences of the test ban are relatively minor. It will not end the arms race or reduce nuclear stockpiles by a single kiloton. It obviously will not tip the balance of power-or both sides would not have accepted it. Its most concrete result is to reduce widespread fears-exaggerated but real-of radioactive fallout. The agreement may also help to check nuclear proliferation. Red China will scarcely give up its project to build an Abomb, nor is Charles de Gaulle likely to abandon his cherished force de frappe. But beyond these, the U.S. estimates, ten countries have...
...since the U.S. striking power is so great. Used to big numbers, they dismiss De Gaulle's force as being less than 2% of the striking power of U.S. missiles and aircraft. But at that, De Gaulle's Mirage IV and Etendard IV planes will carry 50-kiloton bombs-more than twice the power of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima. As part of McNamara's conviction that the manned bomber will soon be obsolete, De Gaulle's force will be out of date before it is active-but McNamara will find argument inside his own Pentagon...
...Nike-Zeus rocket, "interception" does not necessarily mean "a hit.'" Scientists calculate that with a one-kiloton warhead the rocket could either neutralize or destroy a multimegaton monster from a distance of a mile or more. The theory has yet to be tested, but it has silenced critics who originally scorned the plan as a foolhardy attempt to "hit a bullet with a bullet." Says an official of Douglas Aircraft, one of the major contractors for the program: "It's like hitting a bullet with a couple of football stadiums...
Past v. Present. The second Abomb, code-named Fat Man, was a 20-kiloton plutonium weapon even more devastating than the crude uranium device that leveled Hiroshima Aug. 6. Lobbed through a hole in the heavy clouds that blanketed Nagasaki that day, it burst 1,850 ft. above the city with a mighty blue and yellow fireball and five successive shock waves that prompted a ten-year-old's description: "I thought an airplane must have crashed into...
...size of the blasts will probably range from about 1 kiloton to 15 megatons-about the size of the largest weapon ever detonated by the U.S. For the present, the U.S. has no plans to explode a superbomb such as the 58-megaton device detonated by the Russians last fall. But U.S. scientists will have plenty to keep them busy. They have been itching for months not only to try out experiments suggested by the Russian tests, but to move forward along the lines of progress already laid down by the last U.S. tests, and to experiment with a host...