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...seventh Chinese atomic test since Peking joined the nuclear club three years ago, the flash of a fireball last week lit up the desert around Lop Nor in northwestern China. It was the first test since last spring, 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Bang No. 7 | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...tracer bullets arced in all directions, flares popped like fireworks and shells exploded. Seven tons of C-4 plastic explosive went off simultaneously, producing the largest blast of the Viet Nam war. A 1,000-ft. ball of fire shot upward, lighting the whole valley and billowing into a mushroom cloud. The shock wave knocked men off their feet half a mile away and all but destroyed the Special Forces camp. Astonishingly, no one was killed, and only three men were injured in the holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Victory in the Valley | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Perched high on a hill over Switzerland's Lake Geneva is one of the world's strangest-looking abodes, a concrete egg with a huge bay window that often reminds visitors of a flying saucer, a giant clam or a monstrous white mushroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building: The Eggs Are Coming | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...Ricky Nelson malt shop and a large brick oven. Cheery red and white signs tumble across two walls. There are too many to read, so don't try. They are all about hamburgers, anyway; Mr. Bartley's offers twenty different kinds, ranging from Hawaiian to Saute'ed Mushroom...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Harvard on $5 a Day | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...plane flies over a city, and drops a could of plague on the target, wiping it out. It is not the instantaneous mass murder of the mushroom cloud -- it is the slow mass murder of a contagious, incurable disease...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Scientists Consider, And Act On, Dangers of Biological Warfare | 12/21/1966 | See Source »

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