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Letter: For the record

Published 25 October 2006

• In our story about North Korea’s nuclear test (14 October, p 9) the size of the explosion, estimated at 0.5 kilotons, or the equivalent of 500 tons of TNT, is incorrectly compared to the Oklahoma City bomb of 1995. In fact, the Oklahoma City bomb was smaller by a factor of around 100.

• In the feature “Legally high” (30 September, p 41) we erroneously referred to John Halpern of Harvard Medical School as a psychologist. He is a psychiatrist.

Issue no. 2575 published 28 October 2006

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