Nuclear Weapons Test Set
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Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — The Department of Energy has scheduled a major nuclear weapons test for 8 a.m. Thursday in the Nevada desert 79 miles northwest of Las Vegas. A department spokesman said the test would have an explosive yield of 20,000 to 150,000 tons of TNT.
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