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GIB CROCKETT, Washington Star
Quoting Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, who threatened, "The 50-and 100-megaton bombs will always hang over their heads like the sword of Damocles," cartoonist Gib Crockett of the Washington Star, imagined the very real peril under which citizens lived during the Cold War. The Soviets detonated "Big Ivan," also called the "Tsar Bomba," on October 30, 1961. While it had no practical use as a military weapon, it worked well as a diplomatic one. |