16 minutes agoThe super-missage Putin boasted about, lost at sea
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Russia is preparing to regain a nuclear missile that crashed into the sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted in March after his scientists had created a new missile so advanced that it could be “gotish anywhere in the world”. But American intelligence sources said his pride was false because [...]
But American intelligence sources said his pride was false, because four test flights between November and February ended with collapses outside the planned range.
Currently, Russian experts are preparing to recover one of the collapsed missiles, fearing the flow of a nuclear material into the Barents Sea, US intelligence sources for CNBC said.
The withdrawal operation will include three ships, one equipped to handle radioactive material.
Scientists are concerned that nuclear material from the missile could harm the ocean.
Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project in the Federation of American Scientists, told CNBC: It is clear that if a nuclear engine or energy source is launched, nuclear material will be completed wherever the rocket is completed”.
