[CaliforniaDisasters] More Russian Nuclear Monitoring Stations Went Silent Days After Blast, Test-Ban Official Says

More Russian Nuclear Monitoring Stations Went Silent Days After Blast, Test-Ban Official Says

Interruption in nuclear data deepens mystery around explosion in northern Russia

By

Michael R. Gordon

Updated Aug. 19, 2019 1:01 pm ET

The number of Russian nuclear-monitoring stations that have gone silent has doubled to four, an international arms-control official said on Monday, heightening concerns among observers that Russia is trying to hide evidence from an explosion at a missile-test site this month.

Russian monitoring stations designed to detect nuclear radiation at the towns of Bilibino and Zalesovo stopped transmitting data on Aug. 13, Lassina Zerbo, the executive director of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization, told The Wall Street...

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-russian-nuclear-monitoring-stations-went-silent-days-after-blast-test-ban-officials-says-11566232680

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