Torpets is due West of Moscow. The prevailing winds run East to West.
If a nuclear warhead had detonated, the NY Times would have reported yesterday. We would not be reading about it first in the UK DailyMail.
Just because a nuclear-tipped missile is destroyed doesn't necessarily mean that it triggered an atomic chain reaction / nuclear explosion. In all likelihood, some radioactive materials would have been released, contaminating that locality. Big deal!
All of the Putin supporters here are getting their feathers ruffled - more so than they would have if the Russians had bombed yet another Ukrainian kindergarten.
Why am I not surprised?
Regards,
Your trust in the NYT is charming.
It takes a very precisely timed detonation to cause a critical nuclear reaction on a nuclear weapon. Even just blowing one up externally isn’t going to cause it to go off. It would probably scatter highly radioactive material everywhere, but not go critical.
Source: I’m retired USAF. We accidently dropped one from altitude and it didn’t explode.