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| Tango01 | 07 Oct 2014 12:15 p.m. PST |
"On Nov. 6, 1971, the United States conducted its most powerful underground nuclear test to date. The massive, five-megaton blast detonated more than a mile below remote, windswept Amchitka Island in Alaska. The Cannikin shot tested a huge warhead the Pentagon planned to fit to a controversial anti-ballistic missile system. Its novel design drew from an equally controversial civilian nuclear explosive program. And America's most controversial president demanded the test take place. And the tech in question inspired a later president to propose another controversial ABM system…"
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finally begins Vietnam.