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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (462)	5/12/1998 1:27:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan, Thanks so much. But what the University of Tokyo said (bigger than Hiroshima's bomb) is really not very meaningful or even relevant. I've seen the yield of India's 1974 test estimated at 12 kilotons. From Reuters: "Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told a hurriedly summoned news conference the three controlled tests were carried out with a fission device, a low-yield device and a much-bigger thermonuclear device -- in other words, a hydrogen bomb." The "fission device" is probably on the same order as the 1974 test, and India is already saying the "thermonuclear device" was "much bigger," which I read as referring to yield, not its physical size. Israel is no doubt very interested in this test because it also would probably like to develop a thermonuclear device, and it seems accepted gospel that without testing it's impossible to have assurance that such devices would work properly. Poor Israel, they depend on $3 B of U.S. aid per year. Now, if only they could figure out a way to develop H bombs without antagonizing Uncle Sam ... David