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The launchpad explosion that killed 100 Soviet engineers, hidden behind a fake plane crash
In October 1960, a catastrophic explosion at Baikonur wiped out nearly a hundred of the Soviet Union's top rocket engineers, ...
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The Soviet rocket catastrophe hidden for decades, what really happened at Baikonur in 1960
In October 1960 a catastrophic explosion at the Baikonur Cosmodrome killed more than a hundred engineers and military personnel during preparations for a new Soviet missile. The tragedy, later known ...
The last two months have seen the anniversaries of the two worst civilian nuclear catastrophes in history. Indeed, as of Sunday, April 26, it has been 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which ...
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