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The Times nicely captures the bizarre scene of the Indian announcement, in which Vajpayee ignored the likely geo-political shockwaves and spoke instead of measured yields and expected values and offered his warm congratulations to the scientists and engineers responsible.
Do they mean fatalities or the magnitude of the shockwaves?)