"Novaya Zemlya is a test site, and it is very interesting what ... "The thing is - heavy metals are reflected from the shells of both nuclear and non-nuclear ammunition. We’ve carried out ...

it would likely do this on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of Russia, where it maintains a nuclear test site, said Timothy Wright, a research associate at the International ...

The secretive 12th main directorate of the Russian defence ministry is tasked with safeguarding and managing Moscow's nuclear arsenal ...

Scientists for the first time will test for microplastics (plastic particles smaller than 5 mm) sea water and soil samples collected between Franz Josef Land and north of Novaya Zemlya in the ...

On October 23, 1961, the Soviet's conducted nuclear test #123 over Novaya Zemlya. Test #123 utilized a 12.5 megaton nuclear bomb. A bomb of this size would incinerate everything within 2.11 square ...