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To: Dayuhan who wrote (59088)	10/14/1999 10:35:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

A "borderline condition" test may or may not generate a full yield. (You have to test the whole system ... the second implosion stage makes most of your yield but is the real house of cards physics-wise.) For a modern strategic warhead that would be maybe 100 to 300 kilotons. A big thump like that would certainly get everybody's attention. Verifiable? <shrug> Suspicious? Definitely! My guess is that seismic verification of nuclear tests is a bit like Global Warming. Pick the answer you like off quite a menu.