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...Seaborg and his colleagues will be picking up clues for weeks to come before they get the detailed answers as to what the Soviet Union actually tested and accomplished. Known is the fact that Russian tests at three different sites-northern and southern Novaya Zemlya and Semipalatinsk in the Soviet Arctic-have totaled more than 110 megatons of yield, bringing the total Russian test yield to date to about 160 megatons v. 125 megatons from known U.S. and British tests since 1946. The Soviet tests ranged from about 10 kilotons (10,000 tons of TNT) to slightly more than...
...Kara Sea, usually mantled by ice and fog, glared with the blinding light of a multimegaton explosion. Some 1,500 miles to the south, in the stony uplands above Semipalatinsk, another nuclear bomb went off in a ball of fire, thrusting a column of fallout into the upper atmosphere. Thus last week, from one end of Siberia to another, Nikita Khrushchev continued to shock the world with almost daily detonations of nuclear weapons...
...Soviet Union today has conducted a nuclear test in the general area of Semipalatinsk in Central Asia. The device tested had a substantial yield in the intermediate range. It was detonated in the atmosphere...
Where do the Russians test? The region near Semipalatinsk. scene of last week's explosion, is one of Russia's test sites in Central Asia, where large areas are almost uninhabited. Russian-owned islands in the Arctic Ocean may be sites of the biggest Soviet tests...
...kilometers (1,709 miles) from Monrovia," and closer in fact to Paris itself. Fallout, insisted the French government, would be "in regions of several hundred kilometers where there is no known life," unlike U.S. experiments within 80 miles of Las Vegas, Russian explosions less than 150 miles from Semipalatinsk...