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The American sensor network (a legacy of the Cold War) for detecting infrasound from foreign nuclear explosions estimates the blast to be 300,000 tons of TNT: about 20 times that of Hiroshima! The event is captured by countless cameras now standard equipment on every Russian car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelyabinsk, Russia. 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