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When the Americans and Russians actually nuked each other
Seismologist Thorne Lay tells the Cold War story of how and why US military scientists let off their own nuclear bomb at a Soviet test site in Kazakhstan. Why did their Soviet counterparts conduct a similar explosion at the US Nevada test site?
(Picture: A nuclear bomb explosion. Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus)
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