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The Soviet moon rocket explosion that nearly changed Apollo 11 and triggered the largest non-nuclear blast ever
In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union’s massive N-1 Moon rocket detonated on the launch pad in one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history. Kept secret for decades ...
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The nuclear satellite that fell on Canada, how Cosmos 954 nearly triggered a Cold War catastrophe
In 1978, a Soviet nuclear powered spy satellite lost control and crashed across the Canadian Arctic, scattering radioactive debris and forcing a covert international cleanup. This is the chilling ...
On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...
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