LAST week we discussed the strange circumstances surrounding the sinking of the Russian submarine K-129 in the northern Pacific in 1968. Many questions were raised and most will never be answered. For ...

In 1968 the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K129 sank in the Central North Pacific American intelligence located it within weeks of its demise The CIA crafted a secret program to raise the ...

The Cold War makes a comeback in the 1960s-era film "Phantom," which tells the true tale of a Soviet submarine captain trying to ... events involving the United States' recovery of the K-129 submarine ...

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A submarine base in Balaklava was once a Soviet secret, then it reopened as a tourist museum. Now, observers claim the base ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

The Soviet submarine K-222, scrapped in 2010, held the record as the fastest nuclear sub. It boasted a hull of titanium, something U.S. subs aren't constructed from and could reach a maximum speed ...

Designed to be indestructible, the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk met a tragic fate in 2000 when an explosion sent it crashing to the ocean floor. With no way to escape, its crew faced an ...

On August 12, 2000, just three months after Putin took office, the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk suffered a catastrophic explosion during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, sending 118 ...

In September 1978 Farnfield was commanding the hunter-killer nuclear submarine Sovereign when ordered to find a Soviet submarine in the eastern Atlantic. He had had just two days to familiarise ...