All the Times a Russian Spy Submarine Literally Bumped Into an American Carrier
Sometimes surveillance missions go awry and ships or subs can be damaged. Key point: Accidents happen, but it is a big problem when nuclear fuel or weapons are involved. Here are some close calls that happened during the Cold War. It was common throughout the Cold War for NATO and Soviet submarines to stalk surface ships and other submarines in order to gather intelligence and work out tactics for sinking the vessels in the event the conflict escalated into a shooting war. More than once, these undersea stalkings went awry. Collisions damaged ships and subs on both sides. In 1984, the Soviet...