The Shocking Truth Behind the Soviet Union's Deadliest Rocket Disaster #history #truth #explosion

The Nadellen Catastrophe, A Secret Rocket Explosion? So it was with the Nadellen Catastrophe, named for its overall instigator and its highest ranking fatality. Chief Marshal of artillery Mitrofany Bonovitch Nadellen, in his mad dash to find an advantage over the hated Americans, killed countless people including himself in an instant. The year in 1960 and the place is the Baikonur test range in Kazakhstan, in the heart of the Soviet Union. Several launch decisions had cost lives before. However, no launch decision had taken as many lives as the Nadellen Catastrophe did. In the entire history of rocketry, this explosion of a Soviet prototype R-16 rocket was by far the deadliest incident.

The Shocking Truth Behind the Soviet Union's Deadliest Rocket Disaster #history #truth #explosion #youtubeshorts #generalknowledge #books