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...that it can focus its worries on China. Those worries were not helped last week when China exploded a hydrogen bomb in Sinkiang province. It was China's 15th test explosion since it joined the nuclear club in 1964. Estimated to be in the two-to three-megaton range, it was probably the biggest Chinese nuclear blast to date...
...that the nation's decision makers rightly regarded those estimates as "self-serving, budget-oriented and generally inflated." But, he wrote, the Pentagon has so greatly reformed and improved its analysis in recent years that there will be no more "bad overestimates" like "bomber gaps," "missile gaps," and "megaton gaps...
...renew their demand that U.S. tactical nukes in Europe be limited; the U.S. will resist. The U.S. may also demand some limitation on the megatonnage of ICBMS. The U.S.S.R. has shown a preference for far bigger bombs than the U.S.; it is known to be working on a 50-megaton missile (the biggest U.S. weapon is the 5-to 10-megaton Titan II). Toughest of all will be any attempts to write detailed limits on the improvement of existing weapons, especially since such changes are difficult to detect without on-site inspection-something the Kremlin has always adamantly opposed...
...hadn't cast it from a geriatric ward we'd have had half a chance." As it was the film got mired in a morass of Hollywoodism. "But I got to meet Quinn, who is a real original and I admire Kramer though our bomb was of the multi-megaton variety...
...inches at Krakatau. For these reasons and others, geologists assume that the Santorini explosion must have had three or four times the force of Krakatau's. Within a very brief span of time, apparently, Santorini released energy estimated to be equivalent to the blast from a 400-megaton nuclear bomb...