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MIT Researchers: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous (text.npr.org)
submitted 7 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1204623/mit-researchers-russia-s-nuclear-powered-skyfall-missile-is-dirty-and-dangerous

Sometime on Oct. 21 of last year, high above the Arctic Circle, a lone missile shot skyward from a Russian island.

The missile flew northeast and then banked and began flying in loops for hours over the barren, frozen landscape.

According to Russian and Western sources, the new weapon, known in Russian as Burevestnik and by NATO as Skyfall, was powered by a small nuclear reactor. Few other details were forthcoming.

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[โ€“] Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 hours ago

Aren't military missiles suppose to be dangerous in the first place?

[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

How uncivilized, how dare they make dangerous missiles! ๐Ÿ˜ก

sarcasm aside it's kind of a weird thing to describe something constructed specifically to cause harm as "dangerous", and completely takes attention away from it being powered by a dirty nuclear powered engine. Which is bordering on a war crime to use.