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...fallout from Russia's 30-megaton bomb drifted eastward from Novaya Zemlya last week, few governments acted so elaborately unconcerned as the satellite regimes. But Eastern Europe's people showed their alarm by buying up prodigious quantities of table salt in the widespread (and erroneous) belief that a salt rub is the best protection against radioactivity...
After a few days delay to conceal the workings of their detection systems, U.S. authorities began last week to release a few details about the 30-megaton nuclear test in the Soviet Arctic. A 30-megaton explosion is not easy to hide. The island of Novaya Zemlya adjoins the international waters of the Barents Sea, and U.S. airplanes were presumably cruising near the Soviet test range. U.S. submarines were probably watching through periscopes, just as Russian submarines keep track of U.S. rocket shots from Cape Canaveral. Besides such eye and camera witnesses, the U.S. had a varied array of instruments...
...moment of doubt, Timesman Sulzberger was not alone among U.S. columnists-nor for that matter, among editorial cartoonists, both in the U.S. and abroad (see cuts). The dark clouds gathering above Berlin, the deadly mushrooms sprouting above the Siberian testing ground at Novaya Zemlya all combined to give some journalists the visible shakes. Many a pundit, in fact, seemed to be out of touch with the national mood, which was one of determination in the face of freshening danger (see THE NATION...
...attack at a point chosen well in advance. U.S. intelligence officers had warned only the month before that such an incident was imminent. On that clear day last summer, the RB-47 carrying Olmstead, McKone and their companions flew into a well-laid ambush somewhere west of Novaya Zemlya in the Barents...
...fact that the RB-47E was part of the continued U.S. probing of Soviet radar and radio communications-a "ferreting" job similar to operations of heavily equipped Soviet "fishing trawlers" that cruise continually off the American coasts. The plane lost radio contact some 300 miles west of Novaya Zemlya-just about the time that U.S. monitors picked up evidence of a flurry of Soviet interceptor activity in the area...