{"id":89807,"date":"2019-08-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89807"},"modified":"2019-08-13T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:55:29","slug":"update-on-russian-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89807","title":{"rendered":"Update on Russian Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86336\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/nuclear_exposion_fb-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BOOM!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the Times of Israel comes this update on what happened in northern Russia on August 8th:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/radiation-spiked-up-to-16-times-normal-after-russian-nuclear-missile-blast\/\">https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/radiation-spiked-up-to-16-times-normal-after-russian-nuclear-missile-blast\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:\u00a0\u00a0Unnamed intelligence sources told The New York Times that they believed the explosion involved a prototype missile known in NATO circles as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall, which could theoretically reach anywhere on the planet. Russian President Vladimir Putin showed off an animation of such a system last year.<\/p>\n<p>If successfully deployed, such a weapon would pose a strategic threat to the United States because it would be capable of bypassing current American missile defenses. However, there is currently no indication that the Russians have managed to succeed where their geopolitical rivals have failed.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said Monday that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/trump-says-us-learning-from-russia-nuclear-missile-test-blast\/\">the United States is learning \u201cmuch\u201d<\/a> from the deadly blast but that\u00a0 \u201cwe have similar, though more advanced, technology.\u201d &#8211; article.<\/p>\n<p>Since the radiation levels were reported by sources other than Moscow as spiking up to 16 times normal levels, and Moscow did try to squelch some of the information, it may be prudent to take the unnamed sources seriously, but with a grain of salt. If nukes are where he&#8217;s spending his Gazprom money, he&#8217;d be better off developing industries that aren&#8217;t aimed at reviving the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Times of Israel comes this update on what happened in northern Russia on August &hellip; <a title=\"Update on Russian Explosion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89807\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on Russian Explosion<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,9,241,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-war","category-foreign-policy","category-nukes","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89808,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89807\/revisions\/89808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}