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...words when he does. Last week, attending an Air Force Association convention in Philadelphia, LeMay said that the U.S., despite all Nikita Khrushchev's boasts, is well ahead of the Soviet Union in its stockpile of "superbombs," and could have, if it had wanted to, built a 100-megaton bomb "a long time...
...Western powers been the first to start testing after three years of test ban, as the Russians did, the cries and protests from the neutrals would have sounded louder than the explosion of the proposed 100-megaton bomb of Russia...
Khrushchev's talk of a loo-megaton bomb, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said grimly: "We know that the Soviet Union's stocks of nuclear weapons already suffice to destroy our whole country, to destroy all Europe . . . This is the way the world is, and I ask you all to see the world as it is. The Soviet Union also knows full well that if it should in fact come to nuclear war, Soviet Russia will also be eradicated...
...Russians build a 100-megaton bomb? There is no reason why not. Increasing the power of an H-bomb is not a simple matter of adding more of the explosive ingredients; careful designing and testing are called for too. But U.S. experts agree that the U.S. could easily build "gigaton" (billion-ton) bombs if there were a need for them. So could the Russians...
...Russians deliver big H-bombs? The Soviet rocket system that can loft a five-ton capsule into orbit can certainly deliver several times that weight anywhere on earth. Russian-built loo-megaton bombs would not be too heavy to be carried by rocket to New York, Washington or Phoenix. One such bomb could surely destroy New York, and its fallout would kill most people exposed within 100 miles or more downwind...