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Duma source denies nuclear warhead rumours
Publish date: April 4, 2001
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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Duma source denies nuclear warhead rumours
The Bellona Foundation has no reason to believe rumours put out by Norwegian tv channel "TV2" this evening; to the extent that Russian submarine Kursk carried nuclear weapons when it sank in the Barents Sea last August.
Bellona doubts Norwegian tv rumours about Russian sub Kursk
Duma representative Gregory Tomchin, who is also member of the committee investigating the Kursk accident, was the tv channel’s only Russian source. Shortly after the story broke on Norwegian tv, he told Interfax reporter Irina Gribova that he never ment to state that there actually were nuclear warheads on-board. Tomchin said he answered in general terms, that Russian subs do carry nuclear weapons occasionally.
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