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Environmentalists push to block Aleutian hydrogen bomb test
Environmentalists fight two years to stop the Atomic Energy Commission from detonating a five megaton hydrogen device on an Aleutian island. The movement has won Alaska support and drew warnings from the Nixon administration that the explosion could trigger a tsunami and shake the island’s ecology.
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Amchitka Island
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