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To: JPR who wrote (1004)	5/28/1998 5:09:00 PM
From: Rational	of 12475

Dawn 28 May 1998 Thursday 01 Safar 1419 (Last Updated: 23:00 PST) Some Techincal Info Reports, as yet unconfirmed, citing official sources in Islamabad suggest that all five of the tests carried out by Pakistan today were of fission devices (atom bombs). Three of the devices tested had yields in the sub-kiloton (KT) range, and the remaining two larger explosions had yields of 25 KT and 12 KT. A kilo ton is a measure of the explosive yield of a nuclear device. One kiloton is equivalent to the destructive power of a thousand tons of TNT. The bomb that was dropped by the americans on hiroshima had a yield of about 14 KT. (Pakistan Herald News Service) According to AFP, a Pakistani official said that some more tests were likely over the coming days.

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