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Ever read a book that was so astonishing that you had to pause between chapters just to reflect on what you've just read?
Has anyone ever heard of the Glomar Explorer? It was a ship built and financed by the CIA under the auspices of a Howard Hughes ocean mining enterprise in the early 70s to retrieve a sunken Soviet missile submarine. I had read and seen on TV over the years that it was a mostly failed mission. Not so. It was completely successful. But this is only partially what the book covers. I had never given much thought about the Soviet submarine itself, K-129, or how we came to learn about it. The fact of the matter is, we found it and surveyed the wreckage for over a month while taking over 22,000 high quality photographs with a then state-of-the-art underwater submersible suspended 3 miles below a top-secret nuclear submarine years before the Glomar Explorer mission. Did you know the world was nearly plunged into nuclear Armageddon by a rogue Russian submarine and was only thwarted by a fail-safe device which destroyed not only the missile but the submarine attempting to launch it? Or that Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon used this event as leverage for diplomatic success with Russia and China? What an incredible tale of intrigue. Amazon.com: Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. eBook : Sewell, Kenneth, Richmond, Clint: Kindle Store |
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