⚠️ Is Russia preparing its “Flying Chernobyl”? The aggressor’s terrifying new superweapon Aircraft used to track missile trajectories and measure radiation have been deployed to Novaya Zemlya, home to Russia’s main nuclear testing site — just as they were ahead of previous tests of the nuclear-powered Burevestnik missile. In the West, it has been dubbed the “Flying Chernobyl”: an accident involving the missile could potentially spread radioactive contamination over a vast area. And accidents are hardly unheard of — nearly all 13 Burevestnik tests conducted between 2017 and 2019 ended in failure. Putin later claimed “successful” launches in 2023 and 2025, but what happened to the missile afterward was never shown.