Thirty-seven years ago, the Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets plummeted to the seafloor. It settled a mile beneath the ...
A Cold War-era nuclear submarine located almost 5,500 feet underwater might seem like the start of an environmental ...
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As the U.S. Navy submarine fleet gets older, it faces a big problem once those boats retire, and there's no easy solution in ...
Iranian FM Seyed Abbas Araghchi warned Britain against supporting U.S. military action, calling its decision to allow U.S.
A plume of radioactive material seeping from Komsomolets. (Gwynn et al., PNAS, 2026) A sunken Cold War-era nuclear submarine ...
Monitoring teams report elevated radiation levels in surrounding waters near the wreck site.
More than three decades after a catastrophic fire that caused the Soviet nuclear attack ...
The United States military uses nuclear submarines to attack strategic targets, gather intelligence, and deter threats. Submarines make up part of the "nuclear triad" that protects against nuclear ...
SEOUL, South Korea — An arms race for nuclear-powered submarines is accelerating between North and South Korea amid shifts in the United States' security strategy in the region. North Korea's state ...