Word: megatons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military, had just made Ecuador the 15th hemisphere nation to break relations with Cuba.- Of all Latin America's Presidents, Arosemena has been probably the most sympathetic to Castro, and when the Ecuadorian took power last November, Fidel chortled that "it must have hit Washington like a 65-megaton bomb." But now Castro fired his own damp squib: "Arosemena was on some occasions completely intoxicated from Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst of feast and drunken carousals. Any day, in one of these carousals the military will grab...
...there are some kinds of underground and small atmospheric explosions that even this elaborate network cannot detect with certainty. Last autumn, observation posts in Sweden and France confused a small Russian test blast with the Soviets' long-awaited 58-megaton shot simply because it took place simultaneously with an earthquake in California. Recent underground tests in Nevada confirmed that earthquake confusion is possible unless seismographs are within a few hundred miles of the site. Hence the Krishna Menon plan presented at Geneva urging monitors in neutral nations near Russia would change nothing. To be above suspicion, any nuclear power...
...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...
...large-yield weapons field, caught up with it in the medium-yield field, and are closing the gap in the low-yield range. This gives the Russians great military flexibility and enables them to place more powerful warheads on smaller missiles. The top Russian test blast of 58 megatons would have yielded 100 megatons if it had not been encased in a lead jacket, and U.S. experts estimate that its air-dropped device weighed only 20,000 to 30,000 lbs. If that estimate is correct, the Russians could easily refine the device into a 100-megaton warhead...
...Soviet concentration in the one-and two-megaton range was probably designed to develop better warheads for the plentiful Russian intermediate range missiles that now threaten Western Europe. Higher yield devices, including the 25-megaton warhead, could be carried by Russia's "second generation" ICBM, its first storable (but still liquid) fuel rocket, which is more economical and will become operational in quantity this year...