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Trump says US learning ‘much’ from Russia missile test blast
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA...said on Monday that the United States is learning "much" from a deadly blast during a Russian missile test that caused elevated radiation levels. "The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia. We have similar, though more advanced, technology," Trump wrote on Twitter. "The Russian ’Skyfall’ explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!" the president tweeted. Experts have linked the blast - which killed at least five people - to the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, known by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... as SSC-X-9 Skyfall and touted by President Vladimir Putin  ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...earlier this year. Trump’s assertion that the US had similar technology was quickly challenged by American expert Joe Cirincione. "This is bizarre. We do not have a nuclear-powered cruise missile program," Cirincione tweeted. "We tried to build one, in the 1960’s, but it was too crazy, too unworkable, too cruel even for those nuclear nuts Cold War years," he wrote. The accident took place at an Arctic military facility on the coast of the White Sea on Thursday, but Russian authorities only admitted its nuclear nature on Saturday. The missile was being tested on a platform at sea when its fuel caught fire and caused a kaboom, Russian nuclear agency Rosatom said. Several staff were blown into the sea by the blast. Related: Burevestnik: 2019-08-09 Russia Is Going Fishing for a Lost Nuclear-Powered Missile Burevestnik: 2019-02-18 Source: The Petrel missile test successfully completed Related: Joe Cirincione: 2016-07-11 Obama plans major nuclear policy changes in his final months Joe Cirincione: 2004-06-16 Khatami threatens to resume uranium enrichment drive Posted by: Fred 2019-08-14 |
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