Re: China Conducts Underground Nuclear Test

[mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Michael P. Grissom)]

This report looks more realistic, i.e., 100 kt vice the 100 t 
that I had heard earlier [probably another famous newspaper
typo].  However, the test still would not have enough energy 
even as a surface test to provide significant stratospheric 
injection leading to global fallout (key word is significant).
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>The report below is from the China News Digest (CND) WWW Server.
>
>[CND, 05/16/95] -- China exploded an underground nuclear device on Monday,
>Reuter reported.
>
>According to the Australian Seismological Center in Canberra, the explosion
>took place at 0405 GMT (around midnight EDT), presumably at Lop Nor test
>site, Xinjiang.  The blast was recorded about 5.9 in magnitude on the
>Richter scale, and estimated to be of the destructive power of 40 to 150
>kilotons of TNT.  China conducted its last nuclear on October 7, 1994.
Michael P. Grissom
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