#doomsday radio

UVB-76 transmitted clustered coded signals in December as NATO–Russia tensions intensified In the second week of December, a Cold War–era Russian shortwave radio station broke from its usual pattern. Over the course of several days, UVB-76, better known as “The Buzzer,” transmitted an unusually high number of coded messages, including clusters of words, strings of numbers, bursts of Morse code…

The Cold War-era shortwave station has been broadcasting a continuous, monotonous buzzing sound since the 1970s.

Located about 18 miles from Moscow, it is believed to be part of a secret military communications network, possibly even a failsafe linked to Russia's nuclear command system. 

Today, the usual buzzing was interrupted twice with cryptic messages in Russian, consisting of numbers, names or codewords.