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This book is the first complete
English-language edition of D. A. Romanov’s vigorous defense of the
people and institutions that built the ill-fated Soviet nuclear
attack submarine Komsomolets, which caught fire and sank in the
Norwegian Sea on April 7, 1989, while on its first patrol.
Afterward, the Soviet Navy claimed that numerous technical
imperfections had caused the accident. In addition, official
investigators portrayed the crew as self-sacrificing and well
trained, upheld the commanding officer’s actions, and found no
fault in behavior among the dead or surviving crew members. Buoyed
by Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost, dissident voices challenged the
official view. The resulting controversy ruined careers, damaged
personal and professional relationships, and divided the Navy
itself. Romanov refutes the Soviet Navy’s claim that from the very
beginning it had done everything to ensure that Komsomolets was
well prepared for independent patrolling, that it had trained the
crew well, and that the submarine’s personnel had performed capably
during the accident. Observers familiar with the issues and the
acrimony that surround the loss of the Russian submarine Kursk in
August 2000 will find startling antecedents in the Komsomolets
incident. Readers interested in submarine operations and
technology, Cold War navies, Russia, and the dark side of personal
and bureaucratic behavior will be thoroughly satisfied by this
comprehensive study of what really happened and the ensuing
cover-up. |
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