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Huchthausen, Peter Capt Ret K-19 THE WIDOWMAKER: The Secret Story of The Soviet Nuclear Submarine
Washington, D.C. National Geographic 1-Jul-02 079226472X / 9780792264729 Paperback
A companion to the feature film of the same name, K-19: The Widowmaker tells the hair-raising story of the Soviet submarine that nearly caused a nuclear meltdown in 1961. The sub developed a leak as it was heading toward the North Atlantic, and only the ingenious efforts of the crew eight of whom died within days from radiation poisoning staved off a global disaster. Author Peter Huchthausen, a retired U.S. Navy captain and former naval attach‚ in Moscow (as well as a technical adviser on the film), recounts the fateful events and also describes the making of the film. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. This book recaps the near-meltdown of a nuclear reactor in 1961 aboard the first Soviet ballistic missile boat, the K-19. The captain, Nikolai Zateyev, wrote a memoir of his career, which is extensively excerpted here and gives a glimpse into the Soviet nuclear navy and the shoddily constructed ships that Zateyev was given to command; a defective seal nearly sank the K-19 on a shakedown cruise. Worse was to come, with sufficient radioactive drama to inspire a forthcoming film (with the same title) starring Zateyev look-alike Harrison Ford. After the accident was contained by the certain-death heroics of men who repaired the reactor, Zateyev found the culprit in the near cataclysm: incompetent welding. Not that the knowledge improved safety: author Huchthausen, a retired U.S. Navy expert on submarines, embeds Zateyev's tale of woe within the context of a series of submarine accidents culminating in the kursk sinking of 2000. A likely lure for maritime mavens. Gilbert Taylor Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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