about 2500 miles away, off the coast of the white sea, there was another mysterious explosion that occurred on thursday. we don t have visuals of that new york times says it may be, quote, one of the worst nuclear accidents in the region since chernobyl. at least seven people were killed, and russian news media, quote, radiation briefly rose to 200 times normal background levels. u.s. officials suspect it was a prototype of a nuclear cruise missiles. you can see it in this video played by russian president vladimir putin at his state of the union last year. i m joined business an expert. jeffrey lewis is the director of the east asia nonproliferation
in the last week we ve seen news of two major explosion incidents, one of which we have video, one we don t. this was a arm depot on a russian military base in siberia. it sent shrapnel flying for miles. a fire set off the explosions at the gun depot. one person was killed, several others wounded. thousands were evacuated. some residents managed to snap for the photos of the huge plumes of smoke, but that wasn t even the worst of it. about 2500 miles away, off the coast of the white sea, there was another mysterious explosion that occurred on thursday. we don t have visuals of that new york times says it may be, quote, one of the worst nuclear accidents in the region since chernobyl. at least seven people were killed, and russian news media, quote, radiation briefly rose to