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...acknowledged publicly that a war with modern weapons would be "the destruction of world civilization"-and this was news in Russia's censored press. Last week the army newspaper, Red Star, tried to explain what an H-bomb was like: it was like the explosion of the great Tunguska meteorite which struck Siberia in 1908 with a force of a million tons, "and felled the forest over an area of 100 square kilometers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Distorted Commentary | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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