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...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...
...Minuteman arsenal is scheduled to be augmented or partly replaced, beginning in 1986, by a new generation of MX "Peacekeeper" missiles. Congress has so far funded 42 of the new missiles, each of which will carry ten warheads with at least 300 kilotons of explosive power apiece, compared with the Minuteman III's three warheads, each packing up to a 330-kiloton punch. Reagan would like to build 100 MX's, but critics say its many warheads make the MX an inviting target for Soviet strategists and thus a destabilizing weapon...
...leaked document says that nuclear weapons would also be shipped to Spain, the Philippines, Portugal's Azores and the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. According to Arkin, the weapons are ten-kiloton nuclear depth charges that would be dropped from P-3C Orion planes. The State Department last week asked its embassies to emphasize that no nuclear weapons would be shipped to any country without its permission...
AUGUST 6, 1945, JAPAN: the United States drops a 13 kiloton atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, killing approximately one hundred thousand people. In Nagasaki, three days later, another bomb is dropped, killing nearly seventy thousand people Shortly afterwards. American military and political leaders begin planning Operation Crossroads, designed to demonstrate the effects of atomic explosions on naval vessels...