A sunken Soviet submarine packed with nukes. A window for America to gain the upper hand in the Cold War. A CIA cover story worth three billion dollars. I give you Project Azorian, or how the U.S.
MOSCOW – When the “Kursk” submarine sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000, killing all 118 crew members on board, Russian President Vladimir Putin was on holiday at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.