Azerbaijan dramatically escalated tensions amid its border battle with Armenia this week with an implicit threat to bomb the region’s only nuclear power plant and unleash “great catastrophe” on Armenians.
RFE/RL: Azerbaijan’s hint at missile strike on Armenian nuclear plant increases tensions
A picture taken late on March 21, 2012, shows steam rising before the setting sun from cooling towers of the Metsamor nuclear plant, some 30 km (20 miles) outside the Armenian capital Yerevan. Armenia said today it had decided to extend the life of its Soviet-era nuclear reactor of the Metsamor nuclear plant by four years until 2020 despite concerns raised by environmentalists in the earthquake-prone country.
