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Nuclear Alerts Reach Russia

Messages arriving overnight carried the authority of a rescue service. By morning, officials were explaining how the system was breached.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 2

False warnings of a nuclear threat appeared through Russian emergency-information channels overnight on November 2. Reports from St. Petersburg and Karelia, the Russian republic bordering Finland, placed the incident in Russia’s northwest.

Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry, known as MChS, confirmed that an attacker had accessed the administration pa…

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