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Old 07-31-2012, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler View Post
IIRC, during that time we were not talking about 1 or 2 tests a year. There were dozens of extremely high yield --100 megaton-- air bursts every year by both the Soviets and the US.
The source listed by the person disagreeing did not look as if it indicated that.

In any case the fear is that if Pakistan and India start trading nukes it might draw in other nuclear powers.
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