Five things about America's mission to salvage a Soviet nuclear sub
by Andrew Moseman and Sail-World.com on 2 Sep 2017
America's daredevil mission to salvage a Soviet Nuclear Sub Michael Stillwell
Editor's Note: Strange times deliver strange outcomes, and the Cold War had plenty of them. Fancy going out to retrieve a sunken sub, and to do it covertly... What a tale, and then there is the old nautical adage. Never has there been a problem that throwing heaps of money at has never failed to make it disappear!
In February 1968, the Soviet submarine K-129 was conducting ordinary patrols in the Pacific Ocean when it vanished. The USSR organized a massive air, sea, and submarine search for the vessel, but by March they'd come up empty and declared K-129 lost with all hands missing.
The sub carried a Soviet nuclear missile, and Americans in the intelligence and military worlds know what a colossal coup it would be to recover not only an enemy sub but also a nuclear warhead. Thus began a mammoth operation to find and potentially recover a submarine from the bottom of sea.
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