At the time of the accident, the Soviets were extending the deployments of their nuclear submarines, which led to reduced ...

“Even the most competent military forces will have accidents with submarines.” The U.S. has suffered similar setbacks, such as the 1969 sinking of the nuclear-powered USS Guitarro at a ...

The former American president, who died this week at 100, was among those who came to clean up a partial meltdown at Chalk ...

Norway has found a radiation level 800,000 times higher than normal at the wreck of ... The submarine is also known as K-278 in Russia, and it sank carrying two nuclear torpedoes with plutonium ...

A Royal Navy nuclear submarine suffered a "concerning" malfunction while diving, the BBC has been told. The incident on board the unnamed Vanguard class submarine, which carries the UK's trident ...

JUST NOW: WSJ reports that China's new first-in-class nuclear submarine sank in a pierside accident. A series of satellite images from Planet Labs from June appear to show cranes at the Wuchang ...

Highly publicized events such as the Fukushima Daiichi, Chernobyl, Goiania and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents; nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific; and the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine ...