'At risk of horrific contamination': The Soviet nuclear submarine wreck that is a 'ticking time bomb'

In 1989, the Komsomolets sank off the Norwegian coast. Four years later, the BBC reported on plans to seal in its torpedoes' toxic plutonium.

Four Military Submarines Vanished in a Single Year. 58 Years Later, Scientists Have Cracked the Case.

In 1968 four nations—the U.S., the Soviet Union, France, and Israel—all lost submarines under mysterious circumstances, an ...
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What happened when a Soviet nuclear submarine crashed down on USS Tautog

USS Tautog was secretly following the Soviet missile submarine K-108 near Kamchatka in June 1970. Confusing sonar readings ...
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Sunken Soviet Submarine Is Leaking Radioactive Material in The Ocean

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plume of radioactive material seeping from Komsomolets. (Gwynn et al., PNAS, 2026) A sunken Cold War-era nuclear submarine is ...