Word: minibang
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Last week a team of astronomers, led by Marc Aaronson of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, detonated something of a minibang. Using new data obtained by observing the movements of a family of galaxies in the vicinity of the Virgo cluster, they assigned a new age to the universe. The universe, it now seems, is closer to 10 billion years...
...when a Maoist mushroom cloud proved to the world that the Chinese had succeeded in the summa of atomic arts-building a hydrogen bomb. Bang No. 7 was far, far smaller, probably in the Hiroshima-bomb range of 20 kilotons. But it was no less menacing for being a minibang. Unless it was a partial dud-as Peking's unaccustomed silence, led some to believe-its improved miniaturization indicated that China has advanced well along in its countdown toward bombs tidy enough to ride missiles to their targets...
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