{"id":40526,"date":"2019-08-18T19:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T19:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40526"},"modified":"2019-08-18T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T19:22:39","slug":"what-a-mysterious-explosion-tells-us-about-russias-doomsday-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40526","title":{"rendered":"What a mysterious explosion tells us about Russia&#8217;s &#8216;doomsday weapon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London and Moscow  (CNN)<\/cite>An <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/12\/europe\/russia-military-blast-radiation-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">explosion<\/a>. An abruptly-canceled <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/13\/europe\/russian-village-evacuation-missile-explosion-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">village evacuation<\/a>. Five dead nuclear experts. And a few traces of <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/15\/europe\/radioactive-iodine-norway-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">radioactive iodine<\/a> in the air over the northern Norwegian coastline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">These are the fingerprints of what appears to have been Russia&#8217;s latest failed bid to test its Burevestnik missile, <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/12\/europe\/russia-military-blast-radiation-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">also known as Skyfall<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It&#8217;s claimed by its owner, <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/08\/europe\/vladimir-putin-20-years-hodge-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>, to have unlimited range and be able to outflank all US air defenses. But this month, it proved, for a Kremlin keen to emphasize its growing military muscle, yet another high-profile hiccup.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London and Moscow (CNN)An explosion. An abruptly-canceled village evacuation. Five dead nuclear experts. And a few traces of radioactive iodine in the air over the northern Norwegian coastline.These are the fingerprints of what appears to have been Russia&#8217;s latest failed bid to test its Burevestnik missile, also known as Skyfall. It&#8217;s claimed by its owner,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}