Just in time for the President’s big speech, as it turns out.
MOSCOW – The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing was the cause of spectacular spiraling blue lights in the skies over northern Norway, analysts said Thursday. Russia’s defense ministry said a Bulava missile was launched Wednesday by a nuclear submarine submerged in the White Sea and its third stage suffered an unspecified failure. Photographs and amateur video footage of the bluish-white in the Norwegian skies have been circulating on the Internet since Wednesday. The ministry did not confirm that these lights were the result of the failed launch but military analysts said the lights were clearly a result from explosion of the Bulava. This kind of light show comes from a failed missile launch,” said Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent military analyst. “Russia has run free fireworks for the Norwegians.”
Now there’s a perfect punctuation mark to the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Olso. Obama’s vision of global nuclear disarmament was — among other initiatives — one of the reasons he was honored in today’s ceremony. Vladimir Putin, it seems, had no problem reminding the world — in a beautifully timed SLBM test — that both the Norwegians and Obama are chasing unicorns. It’s a fail for Putin, a fail for Obama, and an epic fail for the Nobel Committee. Can’t wait for those START follow-on negotiations!
