Secret documents reveal preferred Australian nuclear submarine base – and warn it could be a military target

Port Kembla residents will likely resist base due to risk of nuclear accident and potential as target for ‘military adversaries’, documents state ...
National Security Journal on MSN

18,000 feet deep: A Russian submarine sank off Bermuda with its nuclear reactor and nuclear missiles still aboard

The Soviet K-219 nuclear ballistic missile submarine sank in the North Atlantic off the coast of Bermuda in October 1986. The ...
National Security Journal on MSN

We lost the nuclear weapons: Fire consumed and sank a Russian titanium attack submarine that now leaks radiation

In April 1989, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-278 Komsomolets caught fire in its engineering compartment during a ...
Milton Ulladulla Times

Most Port Kembla homes in evacuation zone if a nuclear submarine accident occurred

Most of the homes in Port Kembla could be in the evacuation zone if there was a nuclear accident at a submarine base in the ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

From “Soviet” to “Japanese” nuclear disasters: the pitfalls of cultural exceptionalism

The last two months have seen the anniversaries of the two worst civilian nuclear catastrophes in history. Indeed, as of Sunday, April 26, it has been 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which ...