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...even Nehru could bring himself to an outright condemnation of Khrushchev's new tests. Instead, the conference blandly urged that "all countries" resume the moratorium. But Nehru did succeed in getting the delegates to approve a special message addressed to both Kennedy and Khrushchev, urging immediate summit talks between the Big Two, because of the "deterioration of the international situation and the possibility of war which jeopardizes humanity...
...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 by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...Bundy. The men were as yet uncertain about the precise reasons behind the Soviet move, but two points seemed clear. First, the Russians had lost a war of nerves and suffered a considerable propaganda defeat, particularly in the eyes of the neutral nations, by unilaterally breaking the atomic test moratorium. Second, the U.S. would have to resume its own tests...
What U.S. weapons have already been tested? At the start of the test moratorium in the fall of 1958, the U.S. had a family of well-tested bombs ranging in power from less than one kiloton (1,000 tons of TNT) up to 20 megatons (equivalent to 20 million tons of TNT). The 20-megaton weapons are too heavy for existing U.S. missiles, but more than one of them can be carried by far-ranging B-52 bombers. U.S. authorities, both civilian and military, see little advantage in more powerful bombs, such as the 100-megaton horror mentioned by Khrushchev...
...type U.S. bombs in one projected plan for joint scientific research. In any case, Moscow's delegate needed no treaty at all if Moscow could prevent Western testing simply by staying at the conference table, for both the U.S. and Britain had agreed to a year's moratorium on tests and clearly were willing to continue the moratorium as long as there was a chance of agreement...