Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: THURSDAY, May 31, 1990 TAG: 9005310134 SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-9 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: DATELINE: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN LENGTH: Short
Seismic signals picked up Saturday indicated a bomb with a yield of 40 to 50 kilotons was detonated at the Lop Nor test site in Xinjiang Province, said the government-run Hagfors Observatory.
One kiloton has the explosive force of 1,000 tons of TNT. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II had an explosive force of 20 kilotons. - Associated Press
by CNB