My thoughts too. And in this case, phrasing it as a question is more honest than saying "there may have been a nuclear incident in the Arctic", since the statement would still likely cause some panic.

WOW I'm impressed.

I literally never open headlines with rhetorical questions because the rule of thumb for media headlines is that the answer is always 'no'

That principle is encoded as Betteridge's Law of Headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines