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...China (India tested its nuclear explosive underground). Carter now wants to extend the 1963 ban to subterranean testing. The U.S. and the Soviet Union have already negotiated two partial underground bans. An accord signed in mid-1974 bars underground nuclear blasts greater than the equivalent of 150 kilotons of TNT -about ten times the force of the Hiroshima bomb. A second agreement, concluded last May, regulates underground nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes, such as excavating and mining. Both treaties are still awaiting Senate approval...
...winner of the Asia Film Festival Best Director award, has just completed a $2.5 million epic called 800 Heroes, using a cast of 50,000 troops, 30 navy vessels and 50 refitted air force planes. Ting had a problem: protecting his players. Thirty had to be hospitalized because real TNT was used in some of the action scenes...
...must be handled carefully. A tiny speck in the lungs, for example, can cause cancer. More important, plutonium is the prime ingredient of atomic bombs; as little as 22 lbs. is all that is required for a crude fission bomb with the explosive force of 100 tons of TNT. Thus the material must be safeguarded so as not to fall into the hands of terrorists or blackmailers - and this requires tight security regulations. Nader and other critics worry about the unlikely prospect that such security measures would turn the U.S. into a "garrison state," where civil liberties are suppressed...
...hard to know what to make of the atomic bomb now. At the time was shocking for its power--more than 2000 tons of TNT, President truman told the world--but in retrospect, more people were killed in other bombings. It must have seemed then that every war would be conducted with atomic force, so that avoiding war was a necessity in the future--but there have been other wars, they have not used the bomb, and the world has survived. Perhaps it also seemed exciting that Americans had learned to harness the universe's elemental forces, something that...
...Community is its size (only 30 inmates). Experts are uniformly convinced that large "fortress" prisons are an unmitigated contamination of criminal justice. The only solution for San Quentin, reported one corrections official who had been sent to investigate the prison's violence and living conditions, is "200 Ibs. of TNT." He got no argument from superiors. Already, the populations of such oldtime "big houses" are being cut down. In Minnesota there are tentative plans to close the 775-man state prison at Stillwater. One problem, however, is to get communities to accept the new, smaller institutions...