K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267626/



Depiction of the events of the K-19 Soviet Submarine near nuclear reactor meltdown disaster of July 1961, directed by Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty.

The entire crew was sworn to secrecy for 28 years after the accident and the subsequent new crews that served on it afterward from 1961 until 1990 were never told of the prior near nuclear disaster that happened on the submarine.

The K-19 was hurried through construction and commission at the time to keep up with the American technological advances in nuclear Submarines warfare.

Over 10 construction workers died during its construction and the K-19 was considered cursed right from the beginning when during its christening, the champagne bottle thrown against its hull by a Man instead of a Woman, failed to break.

It was also sent on its first operational mission with minimum sea trials, no back up cooling system to the on board Nuclear reactor, no suitable radiation suits and no anti radiation drugs for the crew.

Them Russians sure like to cut corners and do everything the hard way, don't they - as long as it's Duty and Party and the Motherland!

I see that Duty and Motherland and Party sure helped them win the Cold War, NOT!

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