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...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 ended a three-year moratorium on nuclear testing...
...Communist side, it was a week of Khrushchev huffing and puffing: now Nikita exulted in the impressive achievements of Cosmonaut Gherman Titov and the Russian scientists who plotted his course; now he brandished the claim of a Soviet bomb equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT; now he scoffed at Western strength ("Gentlemen capitalists, your arms are too short...
...mercy on the olive orchards of Greece or even the Acropolis!'' To accomplish his task, he boasted at another party (the welcome down celebration for Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov) that Russian scientists now knew how to make an H-bomb equal to 100 million tons of TNT, seven times bigger than any U.S. nuclear device ever exploded...
...Thursday riot, rumors continually swept the College yesterday, hinting at an even greater demonstration. One story said a group of students had returned from Maryland with $250 worth of fireworks. By late afternoon word had gotten around that perhaps the fireworks were actually explosives, including 21 charges of TNT...
...Before the crash of a B-52 airborne alert plane last January in North Carolina, one of the two unarmed H-bombs was jettisoned by parachute. The other crashed with the plane but caused no trouble (at worst, only the TNT in an unarmed H-bomb explodes on impact...