The explosion at a Russian naval test range earlier this month that killed at least five people and sent out a plume of radiation may have occurred when specialists tried to salvage a sunken missile from the White Sea floor.
RFE/RL: Did a botched bid to recover a sunken missile cause the Russian radiation blast?
A picture taken on Nov. 9, 2011 shows buildings at a military base in the small town of Nyonoska in Arkhangelsk region. Russia's nuclear agency chief on Aug. 12, 2019 confirmed that five scientists killed last week were developing "new weapons" and vowed to continue testing despite the explosion.
