NEW SOVIET TEST
17th Bomb In Series (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) WASHINGTON. Oct 5‘ The Soviet Union set off a big nuclear explosion yesterday. described by the United States Atomic Energy Commission as “in the order of several megatons." This was the seventeenth explosion by the Soviet Union since they resumed testing on September 1. The blast was the second detected in two days. Even before yesterday’s explosion. United States experts said the new Soviet series could bring radioactive fallout over the United States to the same record level of the 1958 Russian tests and possibly higher. United Press International reported. Nine of the Soviet tests in the current series had been of megaton force or more and had dumped heavy amounts of radioactivity in the atmosphere. In the 1958 series, the Soviet Union fired seven shots which had megaton power.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29637, 6 October 1961, Page 18
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