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Vladimir Putin works on "weapons like no other" in the short or medium term. In fact Russia will continue to improve its nuclear weapons despite setbacks such as the explosion that occurred on August 8 during the test of a liquid fuel propulsion system in the Russian region of Arjanguelsk. The accident caused the death of five specialists and wounded three. According to reports after the explosion, the incident led to a "radiation peak" in Severodvinsk, a town located in the White Sea, in the Russian Arctic.

The Russian leader spoke yesterday at a ceremony in the Kremlin to deliver posthumous awards to the families of the dead. He did not specify what weapons had been involved in the outbreak, he only said that the "ideas and technical solutions" involved in the project "have no equivalent in the world." And he promised to advance in that arms race. "We will continue to refine this weaponry despite everything," Putin told the widows of the victims. Possession of "these unique technologies," Putin added, is "in itself the most significant and reliable guarantee for peace on the planet."

From the beginning it was not clear what weapon they were testing. Russia only confirmed that a nuclear engine was being tested at the time of the explosion. Russian spokesmen have offered scant and contradictory information about the incident. The Russian nuclear agency, Rosatom, said at the time that the explosion occurred during tests of a "nuclear isotope energy source" on an offshore platform. Later reports said the explosion occurred during a mission to save a lost Burevestnik missile from a previous test.

ARMAMENTISTIC CAREER

Russia tested four of these missiles between November 2017 and February 2018, each of which resulted in a collapse, US media CNBC previously reported, without specifying sources.

Yesterday during the ceremony Putin said that the deceased chose a special mission and fulfilled their duty with honor until the end: "They were dealing with a complex, responsible and critical area. We are talking about the most advanced technical ideas and solutions that have no analogues in the world, weapons designed to guarantee sovereignty, the security of Russia in the coming decades. "

Russia has already said that it will not include its new weapons in an eventual extension of the New START or START III, the treaty that limits strategic armament as required by the United States, at least not without modifying the agreement. The pact was signed in 2010 and expires in 2021. It is the only treatment left between both countries to reduce nuclear weapons after the abandonment by both powers of the Short and Medium Range Missile Elimination Treaty (INF). In October, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country will begin manufacturing medium and short range missiles in response to the development of such rockets by the United States.

FEAR OF ANOTHER CHERNOBIL

The August explosion unleashed fears of another nuclear catastrophe similar to Chernobyl's. Russian media published that several wounded were taken to Moscow, and posted a video of a police and ambulance convoy making their way through the streets of the Russian capital. Two of the three patients who were treated at the Arjangelsk Regional Clinical Hospital did not even arrive in Moscow: they died on the way to the airport, according to the testimony of the doctors.

FSB agents had their colleagues sign confidentiality agreements. Security services arrived at the hospital the day after the accident, and seized all the information about the incident that was in the hospital records. "They repeat what was done in Chernobyl," several local residents told this newspaper. According to their testimony, envoys from the authorities asked the inhabitants to remain inside buildings and close the windows around the affected area.

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