A nuclear official revealed in an email that two Russian nuclear monitoring stations, specifically designated to detect radiations, went down after an explosion, that was supposed to be a nuclear-powered missile that crashed during a test launch.
Lassina Zerbo, the head of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, told the Wall Street Journal in an email that a couple of days after the blast, the nuclear monitoring stations in Kirov and Dubna faced “communication and network issues.”
On Aug. 8, Russian officials put forward a shocking announcement that some sort of accident had occurred during a test launch of a missile engine near the city of Severodvinsk, on Russia’s Arctic coast. Two casualties reported, and there had been a brief spike in radiation detected. Soon after the incident, images and videos uploaded on social media of first responders in hazmat suits, ambulances, and a helicopter for stationed for emergency rescue.
There have been theories that Russia has not been fully transparent about what happened at a military base in the far northern Arkhangelsk region. The initial report from the country’s nuclear agency said that five workers were killed in a rocket engine explosion, but the radiation levels in Severodvinsk, a nearby city, increased by 20 times above normal for about a half-hour after the explosion.
A falling down of the Nuclear monitoring system might be an intentional act.
It has been reported that residents in the nearby area have been stocking up on iodine, which helps reduce the effects of radiation exposure.
President Trump on Twitter said the U.S. is “learning” from the missile explosion and said the U.S. has more advanced technology but did not reveal.
If the recent incident is linked with the Nuclear powered missile’s explosion, then this catastrophic test of a nuclear-fueled missile proves that a new global Arms race will push this World towards more lethal nuclear accidents, and threatens of the possibility of an apocalyptic event in future.
