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Like an important new development in this story, which is that it would appear that the russian government should down monitoring stations nearby the blast site that are monitoring stations that test for radiation. "wall street journal" reporter michael gordon, longtime national security reporter, he had this scoop this weekend that the two monitoring stations nearest to the blast site went dark and stopped transmitting data about radiation shortly after that mysterious blast. that was the initial scoop from michael gordon this weekend. then today michael gordon has new reporting that a few da...

Military is doing is showing off this military to himahawk yesterday afternoon, whatever is going on appears to be the backdrop to what happened in russia a week and a half ago with this mysterious nuclear accident on the white sea in the northwest corner of russia. we still really do not know exactly what happened there and the russian government's explanations and misdirections and complicated obscuring phrases about this thing have made things worse fought better. the "wall street journal" has now just reported what seems like an important if you development in this story, which is that it ...

And the radioactive elements it contains, but does russia get to hide all of what happened? how much does the world get to know and what is in that plume? joining us now is michael gordon, national security correspondent with "the wall street journal." appreciate your time tonight. >> glad to be here. >> let me ask you a bit of a meta question. i've been covering this as best i can. i feel like it's been very, very hard to get information, let alone information that you can cross-check and get second sources on. has this been difficult to report? >> well, the actual episode is still a little b...

Initial blast. that was the initial scoop by michael gordon this weekend. today michael gordon has new reporting that a few days later after the two monitoring stations near the blast site were shut down mysteriously, the russian government shut down another two monitoring stations that were further away a few days later, which suggests they might have thought they covered up the problem when they stopped reporting radiation data close to the site, within a few days, though, if they realize they had to shut down further radiation monitoring sites further away from the blast site hundreds of ki...

Shed light on exactly what it was that blew up and the type of device that seems to have caused this disaster? >> well, the russian government seems to think so. rachel, what there are, there are hundreds of monitoring stations around the world to monitor a treaty, a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty negotiated signed by a lot of countries but never taken effect legally and monitoring stayings exist and a good -- monitoring stations exist and a good number are in russia. two days after the accident, the explosion, the two sites that monitor radioactive particles in the air that were the cl...