like an important new development in this story, which is that it would appear that the russian government should down monitoring stations nearby the blast site that are monitoring stations that test for radiation. wall street journal reporter michael gordon, longtime national security reporter, he had this scoop this weekend that the two monitoring stations nearest to the blast site went dark and stopped transmitting data about radiation shortly after that mysterious blast. that was the initial scoop from michael gordon this weekend. then today michael gordon has new reporting that a few days later, a few days after the two monitoring stations closest to the blast site were shut down mysteriously, the russian government appears to have shut down another two monitoring stations that were further away a few days later, which might suggest that they thought they had successfully covered up the problem when they stopped reporting radiation data close to the site of the nuclear accident.
initial blast. that was the initial scoop by michael gordon this weekend. today michael gordon has new reporting that a few days later after the two monitoring stations near the blast site were shut down mysteriously, the russian government shut down another two monitoring stations that were further away a few days later, which suggests they might have thought they covered up the problem when they stopped reporting radiation data close to the site, within a few days, though, if they realize they had to shut down further radiation monitoring sites further away from the blast site hundreds of kilometers away from where they thought they were sort of safe, well, that suggests maybe the problem is proving too large for their initial coverup. so the coverup, itself, is having to expand its geographical reach as well. we are also getting the first models of the potential radiation plume from the site of the blast, which is not