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...last week at 89. For the first dozen years of his career, from his arrival in Washington as the upset winner of a 1952 race for the Senate to his climactic run for the presidency in 1964, he was notorious for casting lonely and unpopular votes--against the 1963 Test Ban Treaty, for example, and against the Civil Rights Act a year later. For his offenses against progressive opinion, he was variously described as "dangerous," "psychotic," "Hitlerite," "fascistic" and a "rallying point for racists" whose election would lead to a "police state." Even now, in a political era supposedly debased...
...their nuclear one-upmanship. But for the moment, each seems determined to match the other, bomb for bomb. After India detonated five nuclear devices two weeks ago, the question was not whether Pakistan would respond but when. At 3:30 p.m. last Thursday, the earth at the Chagai test site shook, then collapsed. Needles on seismic recorders from Australia to Sweden bounced forward to 4.9 on the Richter scale, indicating that an underground explosion with the power of 2 to 12 kilotons had discharged. "We have settled the score with India," Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif grimly announced, claiming that...
After five easy wins over some of New England's also-rans--Bowdoin, Boston University, Boston College, Wellesley and MIT--at the CWPA New England Northern Regional, Harvard faced another big test, this time against the perennially top-10 UMass Minutewomen on April...
Pakistan may be sitting on top of live nukes that failed to detonate during recent tests, TIME has learned. "There are strong indications that some devices may not have gone off during Pakistan's tests," reports TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Pakistan claimed to have detonated five devices in its first test, but U.S. agencies detected only one blast. "They allow that it might have been three devices detonating simultaneously, but the seismic strength of the blast was too low to have been five devices," adds TIME reporter Stuart Stogel. Since then, Defense Department sources have told TIME that Pakistan...
...spokesman for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty organization in Vienna would not comment on whether the agency was aware of reports alleging that some of Pakistan's devices had failed. "We are still awaiting further information and analyzing the data we have already received," Carlos Hernandez of the CTBT told TIME. "Our function is to simply document when and where nuclear test explosions occur, and to measure their size." Pakistan has refused to comment on questions concerning unexploded devices. But you might want to think twice about taking a job as a janitor at Pakistan's Chagai nuclear test site...