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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.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Transport on the Northern Sea Route is not sustainable, and Kirkenes must not become a potential hub for transport along the Siberian coast. Bellona believes this is an important message Norway should deliver in connection with the Prime Minister's visit to China. In an open letter to Jonas Gahr Støre, Bellona asks the Prime Minister to make it clear that the Chinese must stop shipping traffic through the Northeast Passage.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has published a new report on its efforts to ensure nuclear safety and security during the conflict in Ukraine, with the agency’s director-general warning that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station remains “precarious and very fragile.”
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.