Kursk

"In the worst peacetime disaster experienced by the Russian Navy, on 12 August 2000 the state-of-the-art nuclear-powered Kursk submarine sank with the loss of 118 officers and crew. The sinking was a humanitarian, environmental, military and political catastrophe for Russia, and a powerful reversal for President Putin's standing both at home and abroad." "But what really happened? Did, as the Russians initially claimed, a British or American submarine actually collide with the Kursk, causing the fatal explosion in the bow? Or was an outmoded fuel type to blame, igniting disastrously when one…