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...announcement came a day after the United States exploded a nuclear device 1,300 feet underground in Rainier Mesa, 93 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nev. The test followed one in Nevada on March...
...statement did not say when the Soviets would resume underground nuclear tests, which are never announced here, but noted that "the Soviet state cannot forgo its own security and that of its allies" if Washington is testing...
...This is an unusual situation because there are so many parties involved," Spiegelman said. "It is also not like a standard land purchase, because this process is all underground...
Pentagon analysts believe that the Soviets are embarked on a decade-long strategy to reduce the vulnerability of their nearly 1,400 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the heart of their nuclear arsenal. By the mid-1990s, these weapons will be either ensconced in "superhardened" underground silos or based on mobile platforms that are difficult to locate and target. Even the large, multiple-warhead SS-X-24 missile, says SMP, will be deployed first on mobile rail cars, possibly by late this year. The U.S. has only been studying the possibility of developing a mobile missile, the single-warhead Midgetman...
Lawyers for eight Woburn families are charging that factories owned by Grace and Beatrice contaminated the wells by knowingly dumping wastes into soil that leached into an underground aquifer. The two companies, said Attorney Jan Schlichtmann, "knew what they were doing could hurt people but . . . chose to do it anyway." The wells, closed in 1979, were found to contain five toxic chemicals, among them trichloroethylene, or a cleaning solvent that Schlichtmann contends causes cancer, a point vigorously denied by the defense...