The World - News from June 18, 1985
The Soviet Union may have detonated a underground atomic explosion last week, according to the Energy Department’s Atomic Energy Detection System. The agency said it recorded earth tremors late Friday, “presumably from a Soviet underground explosion.” The signals originated in the Semipalatinsk test area of the Soviet Union, the agency said, but no further details were provided.
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