At least five scientists with Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom were killed after a blast at the Nyonoksa testing range on August 8.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the families of the scientists who were killed in a nuclear explosion in the country's Arctic north they were testing an"unparalleled" weapon.he blast at a test facility in Nyonoksa in the Arkhangelsk region on August 8,
International experts believed the explosion involved the Burevestnik nuclear-powered intercontinental cruise missile, which NATO calls the SSC-X-9 Skyfall. He said that the scientists were working on"the most advanced and unparalleled technical ideas and solutions, about weapons designed to ensure Russia's sovereignty and security for decades to come," in the speech which was broadcast on news channel Russia 24 and picked up by"The very fact of possessing these unique technologies is the most important reliable guarantee of peace on the planet today," he said.
"This is not any ordinary work that led to this tragedy. To devote oneself, one's life to such a thing is the courageous, serious choice of a real man, citizen and patriot of the country," he added in the same speech, in comments reported by RIA Novosti."The world is for our children, for your children who are growing up with you, they are rightly proud of their fathers. We are all proud of them and will always remember them," Putin added.
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