Col. Stanislav Lunev, Russian defector from the GRU, publicly reveals for the first time - in a September 1998 interview with radio host Art Bell - the name of a Russian seismic weapon: “Mercury 18.”
In the interview, Col. Lunev claims the 1988 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia was the result of Mercury 18 testing. One month after these remarks - in which Lunev claims testing of Mercury 18 is then occurring in Chechnya - a 5.8 earthquake struck that region.
