As the newly-commissioned USS Squalus submarine was sunk 240 feet below the waters near the New Hampshire and Maine coast after a test run, 33 US Navy sailors and enlisted men only had hours before ...

Submarines appeared on the global stage during World War I, when Germany unleashed a campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 to sever supply lines between Great Britain and its allies. In ...

Moscow’s cover-up of the Kursk submarine incident seriously damaged Russian President Vladimir Putin’s prestige—and was even viewed by some as a “turning point” for modern Russia. The Americans almost ...

Model of the Kursk nuclear submarine at the Lennusadam Maritime Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Pjotr Mahhonin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY During his first term, Vladimir Putin had to confront a raft of ...

The Kursk’s loss of its 118-person crew makes it one of the deadliest in modern history. In August 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine “Kursk” sailed to the Arctic Circle to participate in a scheduled ...