Russia nuclear blast: What was behind a fatal blast that killed five?

Russian officials are currently investigating a blast in the White Sea which killed five nuclear workers. The explosion - which killed five people installing an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine” - took place on August 8. A resulting radiation leak led to

On August 8, an explosion occurred at a Russian missile testing facility in Severodvinsk, and since there have been concerns around possible increasing radiation levels. There have been reports Russia has not fully divulged what happened in the accident at a military base in the far northern

On January 25, 1995, four years after the official collapse of the USSR, the US and Russia plunged into a second temporary Cold War. A team of Norwegian and US scientists launched the Black Brank X11 four-stage rocket from the Andoya Space Centre in Norway. The purpose of the mission was to

Fears of conflict have dramatically escalated after the US treated a nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missile on Sunday just weeks after Washington withdrew from a cold-war era missile control treaty that would have barred the test launch. The projectile hit its target after 500kms of flight, the