Word: superbomber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another kind of test, Khrushchev's superbomb prompted many of those who respect or merely fear Russia to re-examine their consciences. In the U.N. a number of small nations that are normally reluctant to offend Moscow pluckily backed an emergency appeal to Khrushchev expressing "deep concern" over his scheduled 50-megaton explosion -though other small nations and neutrals eventually emasculated it. Britain's most influential Ban-the-Bomber, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who has been quicker to censure the U.S. than the U.S.S.R. for possessing nuclear arms, stormed out of an hour-long protest meeting with Russian embassy...
...Hungarian revolution of 1956 and as they did last week, with the pressure mounting over Berlin. To a world that was surprised as much as it was dismayed (see THE WORLD). Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted of a superbomb that had the force of 100 million tons of TNT-5,000 times the size of the A-bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and five times the size of the biggest bomb in the U.S. arsenal. Two days later, the testing began with a medium-sized bomb explosion in Central Asia. Thus...