Soviet’s Biggest Nuclear Explosion
Surpassed by U. S. Bikini Blast
MOSCOW, —The Soviet gov-*
ernment announced Saturday it
had exploded a hydrogen bomb
and that it was the most powerful
yet achieved by Soviet engineers.
The announcement, made at a
news conference in the foreign
ministry, followed a statement in
a speech Saturday at Bangalore,
India, by Soviet Party B~ss Nikita
Khrushchev that the Soviet Union
had exploded a nuclear weapon of
“maximum strength.” He said it
equalled one million tons of TNT.
(The Soviet announcements con
firmed a U.S. announcement of
last Wednesday that the Russians
had set off their greatest explosion
yet. The U.S. announcement made
no direct comparison with the U.S.
test of a nuclear device set off at
Bikini atoll in March 1, 1954. But
Khrushchev’s statement that it
amounted to one million tons of
TNT would place it in a relatively
small category compared to the
Bikini blast, which was reckoned
at 15 to 17 million tons of TNT.)
The announcement said tests of
new types of atomic and thermo
nuclear weapons had been made
“recently” but did not say where.
This is the text of the announce
ment:
“In accordance with plans of
scientific research and experimen
tal work in the field of atomic
Polar Explorer McMillan
To Make 31st Trip In June
PROVIDENCE, R.I., UP) — Polar
explorer Donald B. McMillan said
Saturday he will sail June 1 on
his 31st voyage to the Arctic.
MacMillan, here to deliver a
lecture, told newsmen he will sail
his auxiliary schooner Bowdoin
from Booth Bay, Maine, next sum
mer to survey and sound several
of the world’s northernment. har
bors in northern Greenland, 120
miles north of Thule.
The 81-year-old Arctic explorer
went on his first Arctic trip in
1908 as chief assistant on Adm.
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power, tests of new types of atom
ic and thermonuclear weapons
have been carried out in the Sovi
et Union recently.
“The tests have fully confirmed
the pertinent scientific and techni
cal calculation showing the new
and important achievements of
the Soviet scientists and engi
neers. The latest explosion of the
hydrogen bomb was the most
powerful of all explosions carried
out until now.
“With the aim of preventing ra
dioactive influences, the explosion
was conducted at a great height.
At the same time, extensive re
search was conducted on problems
of protection of the people.
“In conducting the above men
tioned tests in the interests of in
suring its security the Soviet
Union will continue to strive, as
before, to reach agreement in ^e
United Nations on the prohibition
of atomic and hydrogen weapons
and on the reduction of all other
types of armaments, on the fur
ther reduction of international
tension, on the establishment of
good faith between states, on the
maintenance and strengthening of
general peace.”
The announcement of the tests
came minutes after the Soviet
government had issued a stern
note to Iran for her participation
in the Baghdad pact.
Today’s disclosure was the first
Soviet announcement of atomic
tests since 1953.
SHORT BOY TAKES FRIENDS
FOR A SHORT DRIVE
HOFFMAN, Okla., UR—Sixteen
vear-old Charles Barnett wanted
to “treat” his friends Friday. He
invited five of them for a spin in
the family car.
He got the car out of the yard,
all right, then overturned into a
ditch a few feet down the road.
Only Barnett was injured, suffer
ing a few bruises.
• “If he hadn’t got hurt, I was
gonna hurt him,” his mother said.
Charles cannot drive. In fact,
he can barely see over the dash
board. He’s all of 3 foot 8.
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In Shotgun Killing
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MINEOL^., N. Y., UP)—Counsel
for Mrs. Ann Woodward, who on
Friday night heard a grand jury
vote “no indictment” in the shot
gun killing of her millionaire
sportsman husband, says that the
blonde widow “nows feels she can
be left alone with her children.”
Pale and trembling, the black
clad 39-year-old woman emerged
from the Nassau County court
house apparently broken in spirit
by her re-enactment of events
leading to the shooting of William
Woodward, 35, in their Oyster Bay
home last Oct. 30.
The one-time showgirl who
married into top-drawer society—
she is listed in advance copies of
the 1956 social register, society’s
Blue Book—had to be virtually
carried to a car.
A pretty women who moved
gayly in select circles, Mrs. Wood
ward looked aged far beyond her
years. A handkerchief to pale lips,
she could only mumble incoher
ently to waiting newsmen.
Mrs. Woodward was one of 31
witnesses heard Friday by the
jury, which sat for about 10 hours,
then deliberated 46 minutes. Mrs.
! Wodward was found “not guilty?
of three charges being considered
—first degree murder, murder in
the second degree, and man
slaughter.
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