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...Soviet Union promptly denounced the explosion as a violation of a 1974 Soviet-American agreement that limits underground detonations to 150 kilotons (150,000 tons of TNT). Although the force of the weapon tested last week was classified, DOE officials said it was considerably lower than 20 kilotons, the explosive yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The blast registered 4.5 on the Richter scale on seismographs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. But DOE officials said the instruments probably gave a high reading because the test was conducted in hard rock, which sends out a more powerful seismic...
McGovern accused President Reagan of being "tragically ill-informed" about Soviet-American attitudes. He acknowledged that Reagan is well-intentioned, but charged that the President's hardline policies--particularly in the area of nuclear weapons--have brought the United States to the point of potential annihilation...
...instead, the President seems bent on allowing this act of fate to drag relations with the Soviets not forward, but back to the starting gate. And fate promises to relieve the Administration of the necessity of proving conciliatory in the election year to come, to muffle the bad press resulting from having presided over the worst level of Soviet-American relations in recent history Circumstance has offered the Administration a convenient way out which they seem inclined to follow, even at the risk of losing a rare chance to open a better route...
shouted ABC-TV Announcer D Al Michaels over the uproar of an ecstatic Lake Placid crowd as the last seconds of the Soviet-American Olympic hockey semifinal game ticked away with the Americans leading...
...fate of such initiatives may depend on whether the Warsaw Pact nations distract the conference with propaganda blasts against the new NATO missiles or high-sounding but insubstantial "declaratory proposals" against aggression. In a press conference for Europeans last week, Shultz warned against expecting immediate improve ments in Soviet-American relations. "We are prepared for a thaw," he said, "but whether there is one will reflect what the desires of the Soviet Union are. It takes two to thaw...