Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin is a dramatic and forensic examination of events that took place in August 2000, after an explosion onboard the Kursk submarine trapped a group of survivors at the ...
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 ...
In August 2000, a routine torpedo test aboard the Russian submarine Kursk triggered a chemical reaction involving high-test peroxide fuel. . The initial blast set off a second, far larger explosion ...