The Mysterious Disappearance of Soviet and U.S. Nuclear Submarines: What Are They Hiding?
NUCLEAR GRAVES AT THE BOTTOM. Right now, Soviet and American nuclear submarines lie at the bottom of the Atlantic and in the Arctic seas—complete with reactors, nuclear fuel, and, in some cases, warheads. The two superpowers raced to build invisible submarines to rule the oceans. The ocean took them back. And almost no one knows how many are out there—or what will happen when the metal finally rusts through.
This is not a problem for just one country. It is the collective price of the nuclear arms race.
The U.S. lost the Thresher in 1963 and the Scorpion in 1968—both sank, and the causes of both have never been officially disclosed. The USSR irradiated the entire crew of the K-27 with an experimental reactor—and sank the entire submarine, having failed to decontaminate it. And in 2003, the rusty K-159 was towed on pontoons through a storm with ten people alive inside. Only one returned.
Four submarines. Two countries. One answer to all questions: unknown.
From this investigation, you will learn:
— Why the first nuclear submarine in history was lost during testing—and what remains in the classified pages of the “Tresher” case
— What tore the American “Scorpion” in half—and where the theory of Soviet revenge came from
— How the liquid-metal reactor irradiated the entire crew of the K-27—and why the boat was sunk along with them
— Why, in 2003, ten people were put into a dead, rusty hull and dragged out into a storm
— How many nuclear submarines and reactors lie at the bottom of the world’s oceans today
— Why two rival superpowers handled the truth in the same way
— What they plan to raise from the Arctic seabed after 2026
Sources: declassified U.S. Navy documents on the Thresher and Scorpion*, findings of judicial commissions, calculations by oceanographer John Craven, who located the *Scorpion using sonar, works by naval historian Norman Polmar, data from Rosatom and the Ministry of Development of the Russian Far East on the recovery of K-27 and K-159, materials from Russian-Norwegian radiation monitoring expeditions, and archives of the Northern Fleet.
Records of the same sound—a hull collapsing under pressure—are still kept in the vaults of the USSR and the USA. Signed in different languages, in different countries. Enemies with a shared graveyard at the bottom.
00:00 — REACTOR AT THE BOTTOM
01:18 — SEABED MAP
03:54 — THRESHER
13:52 — SCORPION
23:52 — EXERCISE COMPLEX
24:58 — K-27
34:31 — K-159
43:42 — THE TESTIMONIAL LAYERS OF TWO EMPIRES
48:39 — THE OCEAN AS A COLD WAR DUMPING GROUND
53:13 — WHAT REMAINS UNANSWERED
55:16 — FINAL IMAGE.
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