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Publish date: December 21, 2005
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The missile hit a target at the Kura firing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Russian Navys Captain Igor Dygalo told Ekho Moskvy radio. This was the first underwater launch of a Bulava missile and the second launch conducted as part of a series of tests of the missile, he said.
The Dmitry Donskoy, a Typhoon class ballistic missile submarine, carried out the first test surface launch of a Bulava missile from a point in the White Sea on Sept. 27, 2005. The Bulava (SS-NX-30) is the submarine-launched version of Russia’s most advanced missile, the Topol-M (SS-27) solid fuel ICBM.
The seaborne strategic missile system Bulava can carry at least 10 independently targetable nuclear warheads. Its effective radius is at least 8,000 kilometers.
Bulava was designed to arm advanced nuclear submarines (project 955; Borey type). Two of them are currently constructed at the North Dvina Engineering Works. "We are fairly certain that the Bulava missile system, and a new submarine to be equipped with it, will be deployed by our navy in 2008," the Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov said.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.