While the Kursk submarine disaster remains one of the most well-known nuclear submarine tragedies, it is not the only sunken nuclear sub in history. This video explores 8 other nuclear submarines ...

It's not always an explosion or sinking that's catastrophic to a submarine and its crew. Sometimes it's the lack of oxygen. In May 2003, Chinese fisherman saw a periscope protruding from the water.

How the submarine actually went down was a relative mystery at the time of the sinking. However, Russian governmental sources pinned the sinking on an explosion inside of one of the torpedo bays ...

The Kursk disaster was a major setback for Putin, who had started his first presidential term three months earlier and faced fierce criticism over his handling of the crisis and its aftermath.

The Kursk’s sinking didn’t kill all of its 118 crew members—at least not right away. One of the ship’s officers, Lieutenant Captain Dmitri Koselnikov, left a note dated two hours after the ...

The Kursk’s sinking didn’t kill all of its 118 crew members—at least not right away.One of the ship’s officers, Lieutenant Captain Dmitri Koselnikov, left a note dated two hours after the second ...

The cruise-missile submarine Kursk suffered a massive explosion and sank after an onboard torpedo accidentally detonated. The accident was the worst naval disaster suffered by post–Cold War Russia.

MOSCOW — A retired Russian admiral has alleged that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by a collision with a NATO sub, an unproven claim that defies the official conclusion that the ...

A retired Russian admiral has alleged that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by ... allowing the investigators to retrieve 115 bodies and search the mangled hull for clues about the cause.

Admiral Retired Vyacheslav Popov has alleged in an interview released on November 22, that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by a collision with a NATO sub, an unproven claim that ...