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* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics : Nuclear reactors, by very nature, ''do not create a nuclear explosion'' if they melt down. Similarly, you can't "cook off" a Nuclear warhead. Although Radtchenko confesses he has no idea what would actually happen, he just speculates.
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* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics : Nuclear reactors, by very nature, ''do not create a nuclear explosion'' if they melt down. Similarly, you can't "cook off" a Nuclear warhead.warhead, just the explosive lenses. Although Radtchenko confesses he has no idea what would actually happen, he just speculates.
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* VomitIndescretionShot: When the repair crew leaves the reactor room, their first action is to puke. Vomiting is, by the way, one of the symptoms of fatal radiation poisoning.
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The K-19 itself is still preserved in a submarine graveyard, and the former chef on the ship considers buying it and using it as a memorial.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Marshall at the beginning of the film was the Soviet Ambassador in ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober''.
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** And the new medic is actually [[GameOfThrones Maester Luwin]]
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* ForDoomTheBellTolls: The song "Reactor" from the soundtrack, which plays during the reactor repairs, opens with this, emphasizing what is going to happen to the crew members going into the reactor.
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* AFatherToHisMen : Both Captains, but Polenin moreso than Vostrikov, even if the dynamics between both captains actually make Polenin feel more like the TeamMom of the crew.
* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics : Nuclear reactors, by very nature, ''[[YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever do not create a nuclear explosion]]'' if they melt down. Similarly, you can't "cook off" a Nuclear warhead. Although Radtchenko confesses he has no idea what would actually happen, he just speculates.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory : K-19 ''wasn't'' the USSR's first nuclear sub — that distinction went to K-3, which was an attack sub, and while similarly "[[TheAllegedCar reliable]]" wasn't ''that'' prone to serious accidents. K-19 was the first nuclear ''missile'' sub.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory : K-19 ''wasn't'' ArtisticLicenseShips: The crew used a diesel sub for filming and it shows. Nuclear subs are ''much'' roomier, though the USSR's first nuclear sub — that distinction went to K-3, which was an attack sub, and while similarly "[[TheAllegedCar reliable]]" wasn't ''that'' prone to serious accidents. K-19 was cramped interiors of a diesel boat just make a better stage for the first nuclear ''missile'' sub.[[RuleOfDrama drama]].
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* {{Retirony}}: The first repair crew had only an hour left in their shift when the accident happened.
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** Also averted with the way the contamination spreads through the ship's compartments. Exposed to such intensely radioactive steam in completely unsuitable chemical hazmat suits, the irradiated crew members would contaminate everything they touched, or anything that touched them. The entire ship quickly would become hot, and that's exactly what happens.
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** Also averted with the way the contamination spreads through the ships. Exposed to such intensely radioactive steam, the irradiated crew members would quickly contaminate the entire ship, and that's exactly what happens.
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** Actually averted with that violet-blue color in the reactor room. That color? It's '''''thousands of rads''''' of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation Cherenkov radiation]], in a completely unshielded compartment. As said below, solid lead PoweredArmor wouldn't have protected the crew in that oven - it was little wonder some broke down crying when contemplating going into there.
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** Actually averted with that violet-blue color in the reactor room. That color? It's '''''thousands of rads''''' of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation Cherenkov radiation, radiation], in a completely unshielded compartment. As said below, solid lead PoweredArmor wouldn't have protected the crew in that oven - it was little wonder some broke down crying when contemplating going into there.
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[[http://juliett484.org/juliett/ Submarine K-77]], a diesel-powered missile submarine that somehow got bought by a Finnish entrepreneur, was used as the main set for this movie, and later served as a museum in Providence, RI until it sank in a storm in 2007. It was scrapped in 2009.
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!!''K19 : The Widowmaker'' contains examples of:
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* TitleDrop: While ''The Widowmaker'' is actually never said within the film, Radtchenko said that if they fail to fix the coolant leak, it would be ''Hiroshima'' all over again, a nod to the actual nickname the K-19 got in real life.
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* TitleDrop: While ''The Polyenin notes that the crew is beginning to call the ship ''the Widowmaker'' is actually never said within the film, when Vostrikov asks for a status report, and Radtchenko said that if they fail to fix the coolant leak, it would be ''Hiroshima'' all over again, a nod to the actual nickname the K-19 got in real life.
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In 1959, the Soviet Union launches its first nuclear submarine, the K-19 - nicknamed "The Widowmaker" due to many deaths that occurred during manufacturing. The ship is led by Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford), aided by executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson). One day, the ship's reactor cooling system starts to fail, leading the sailors to work together in order to both save the crew's lives as well as prevent a nuclear accident that could trigger World War III.
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In 1959, the Soviet Union launches its first nuclear submarine, the K-19 - nicknamed "The Widowmaker" due to many deaths that occurred during manufacturing. The ship is led by Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford), (HarrisonFord), aided by executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson).(LiamNeeson). One day, the ship's reactor cooling system starts to fail, leading the sailors to work together in order to both save the crew's lives as well as prevent a nuclear accident that could trigger World War III.
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* ChromosomeCasting: Male example. Justified given the setting.
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->''"It's my favorite movie about Russian patriotism, in fact, it's the only one!"''
-->-- '''Caleb West''' (he loved it)
''K19: The Widowmaker'' is a fact-based fictional movie released on July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine of the same name. It was directed by KathrynBigelow, of ''PointBreak'' and ''TheHurtLocker'' fame.
In 1959, the Soviet Union launches its first nuclear submarine, the K-19 - nicknamed "The Widowmaker" due to many deaths that occurred during manufacturing. The ship is led by Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford), aided by executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson). One day, the ship's reactor cooling system starts to fail, leading the sailors to work together in order to both save the crew's lives as well as prevent a nuclear accident that could trigger World War III.
[[http://juliett484.org/juliett/ Submarine K-77]], a diesel-powered missile submarine that somehow got bought by a Finnish entrepreneur, was used as the main set for this movie, and later served as a museum in Providence, RI until it sank in a storm in 2007. It was scrapped in 2009.
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!!''K19 : The Widowmaker'' contains examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen : Both Captains, but Polenin moreso than Vostrikov, even if the dynamics between both captains actually make Polenin feel more like the TeamMom of the crew.
* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics : Nuclear reactors, by very nature, ''[[YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever do not create a nuclear explosion]]'' if they melt down. Similarly, you can't "cook off" a Nuclear warhead. Although Radtchenko confesses he has no idea what would actually happen, he just speculates.
-->'''Radtchenko''':The temperature will keep rising 'til it reaches 1,000 degrees, and...
-->'''Vostrikov''':And? And [=WHAT?=]
-->'''Radtchenko''':No one knows.
** However, a nuclear reactor at 1,000 degrees coming in contact with cold water all of a sudden would form a very impressive dirty bomb and certainly wouldn't do the sub crew any good. Larry Bond's book "Crash Dive" recounts a very similar situation aboard the Soviet sub K-219.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory : K-19 ''wasn't'' the USSR's first nuclear sub — that distinction went to K-3, which was an attack sub, and while similarly "[[TheAllegedCar reliable]]" wasn't ''that'' prone to serious accidents. K-19 was the first nuclear ''missile'' sub.
* BasedOnATrueStory : Some feel it's more of a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
** Including the crewmen from the original accident. However, they ''did'' like the film overall, especially Harrison Ford's performance.
* TheCaptain : Two actually. Polenin, who still has the Captain rank, was downranked to [=XO=] for the duration of the exercise, after upsetting Party members. Vostrikov takes his place as the Captain. The rest of the officers do not like this as they feel Vostrikov only got command because he married a party member's daughter.
** That's somewhat more complex. Soviet/Russian rank system doesn't maintain a rigid correspondence between the rank and position, so, say a division (nominally a major general billet) can be and often is commanded by a colonel. So Polenin was demoted (from CO to XO), but not downranked, as he kept his Captain rank.
* ColdWar
* CorruptCorporateExecutive / ObstructiveBureaucrat: More like Corrupt Politburo Party Members. The vast majority of the K-19 problems can be traced to shoddy construction, including the use of substandard parts on critical systems as cost cutting measures and yet the Party still wanted to have it launch on deadline and [[TemptingFate not fail]].
** Not to mention that Party Members believe the crew can deal with the radiation contamination, just by barking even more orders and eating fresh fruit.
* DistantFinale: There's an epilogue that takes place 28 years after the main body of the film, that shows the surviving crew members reuniting to finally give the seven [[HeroicSacrifice heroes]] a proper tribute.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Radtchenko's Heroic Sacrifice is eerily similar to [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Spock's]].
* DownerEnding: Due to the politics of the Soviet Union, the men that sacrificed their lives so that the rest of the crew could survive got little to no merit; several more crew member would have health complications for the rest of the lives, some even succumbing to cancer; and everyone got slapped with basically a gag-order that prevented them from talking about the events of the K-19 disaster.
* FailedToPayShippingCharges: The crew used a diesel sub for filming and it shows. Nuclear subs are ''much'' roomier, though the cramped interiors of a diesel boat just make a better stage for the [[RuleOfDrama drama]].
* {{Fingore}}: While unloading a torpedo, a sailor's hand gets mangled when its caught in the chain pulley.
* GoingCritical
* HazmatSuit: Unfortunately, the Quartermaster's office screwed up and gave them suits rated for ''chemical'' hazards instead of ''radiation'' hazards. Not that it would make much difference. No hazmat suit short of solid lead PoweredArmor could really protect from the radiation of the live nuclear reactor, and even that not all that well. Modern radiation hazmat suits mainly protect the wearer from radioactive ''material'' contamination, being just a slightly beefed up chemical suit.
* HeroicSacrifice: The second half of the movie is pretty much a series of these.
* IronicEcho: At the beginning of the film, when a drill supervised by party members, Polenin gives his own name when asked who is the person resposible for such failure. When the reactor fails and Vostrikov demands who is responsible for the reactor failure, Polenin gives Vostrikov's own name and the new reactor officer he brought into the sub as the ones responsible.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Vostrikov pushing people to the edge early in the film, while stressing his crew badly, eventually proves useful as it allows them to operate better once the reactor fails.
* LetThemDieHappy: The poor soldiers who sacrificed themselves to prevent K-19 from going critical.
* {{Lzherusskie}}
* MnogoNukesMissileSubmarines
* TheMutiny: Technically Barratry; the political officer attempts to countermand Vostrikov and give command to Polenin so they can [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandon ship.]] He refuses and has them locked up.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast : The Widowmaker. Although in RealLife, it didn't earn a nickname till after its nuclear accident, which by the way, was "Hiroshima."
* NauticalFolklore : Why the crew thinks is a bad omen that the bottle didn't break during the RibbonCuttingCeremony.
** It's also usually considered bad luck to have two captains on one ship.
* TheNeidermeyer : Vostrikov is portrayed like this at the beginning of the film, he gets better as the film progresses. He eventually comes to the realization that his duty to his men is more important than the duty to the Soviet Union when the party members make it clear they care more about looks / public opinion than the lives of the men under his command.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: To the amusement of some, Harrison Ford seems to alternate between this and bursts of {{Lzherusskie}}. It's more egregious with Liam Neeson however.
** One reviewer remarked that they were the most American and Irish Russians ever, though at one point Harrison Ford himself starts to sound more Irish than Russian, which he probably picked up from hanging out with Liam Neeson too much. Quite a few of the other sailors (those who weren't Russian-born) have [[OohMeAccentsSlipping wobbly]] accents, too.
* PatrioticFervor: What drives some of the people that willingly went into the reactor.
* OminousLatinChanting: Whenever they have to go into the reactor and fix the reactor cooling system.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: See {{Lzherusskie}} above.
* RibbonCuttingCeremony: It does not bode well when the bottle fails to break. A sailor even remarks they're ''cursed''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A sailor jumps off the submarine when the alarm sounds off again after one of the rigged coolant pipes fails.
* SomeoneHasToDie
* ShowingOffThePerilousPowerSource
* SubStory
* TheSoCalledCoward : Lt. Radtchenko, who suffered a total nervous breakdown and did not assist in the first effort to repair the cooling system for the reactor, does the reparations all by himself when the first efforts failed later in the voyage, spending more time inside the reactor than any other men.
** TimeToStepUpCommander
* ThisIsNotADrill
* TitleDrop: While ''The Widowmaker'' is actually never said within the film, Radtchenko said that if they fail to fix the coolant leak, it would be ''Hiroshima'' all over again, a nod to the actual nickname the K-19 got in real life.
* VehicleTitle : The Aforementioned K19
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The film plays fast and loose with the facts, abandoning them whenever it allows to play up the RuleOfDrama. Just to name a few, it conflates the first and the second accidents with the titular sub while completely forgetting the ''third'', changes its nickname, and adds a lot of ColdWar cliches like the crew mooning Americans.
* WorldWarIII : Vostrikov tells the crew that because an American destroyer is trailing them too closely, and very close to a [=NATO=] base, he fears that if the sub goes critical and the destroyer gets caught up in it, then America/NATO might misunderstand and nuke Russia in retaliation.
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-->-- '''Caleb West''' (he loved it)
''K19: The Widowmaker'' is a fact-based fictional movie released on July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine of the same name. It was directed by KathrynBigelow, of ''PointBreak'' and ''TheHurtLocker'' fame.
In 1959, the Soviet Union launches its first nuclear submarine, the K-19 - nicknamed "The Widowmaker" due to many deaths that occurred during manufacturing. The ship is led by Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford), aided by executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson). One day, the ship's reactor cooling system starts to fail, leading the sailors to work together in order to both save the crew's lives as well as prevent a nuclear accident that could trigger World War III.
[[http://juliett484.org/juliett/ Submarine K-77]], a diesel-powered missile submarine that somehow got bought by a Finnish entrepreneur, was used as the main set for this movie, and later served as a museum in Providence, RI until it sank in a storm in 2007. It was scrapped in 2009.
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!!''K19 : The Widowmaker'' contains examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen : Both Captains, but Polenin moreso than Vostrikov, even if the dynamics between both captains actually make Polenin feel more like the TeamMom of the crew.
* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics : Nuclear reactors, by very nature, ''[[YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever do not create a nuclear explosion]]'' if they melt down. Similarly, you can't "cook off" a Nuclear warhead. Although Radtchenko confesses he has no idea what would actually happen, he just speculates.
-->'''Radtchenko''':The temperature will keep rising 'til it reaches 1,000 degrees, and...
-->'''Vostrikov''':And? And [=WHAT?=]
-->'''Radtchenko''':No one knows.
** However, a nuclear reactor at 1,000 degrees coming in contact with cold water all of a sudden would form a very impressive dirty bomb and certainly wouldn't do the sub crew any good. Larry Bond's book "Crash Dive" recounts a very similar situation aboard the Soviet sub K-219.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory : K-19 ''wasn't'' the USSR's first nuclear sub — that distinction went to K-3, which was an attack sub, and while similarly "[[TheAllegedCar reliable]]" wasn't ''that'' prone to serious accidents. K-19 was the first nuclear ''missile'' sub.
* BasedOnATrueStory : Some feel it's more of a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
** Including the crewmen from the original accident. However, they ''did'' like the film overall, especially Harrison Ford's performance.
* TheCaptain : Two actually. Polenin, who still has the Captain rank, was downranked to [=XO=] for the duration of the exercise, after upsetting Party members. Vostrikov takes his place as the Captain. The rest of the officers do not like this as they feel Vostrikov only got command because he married a party member's daughter.
** That's somewhat more complex. Soviet/Russian rank system doesn't maintain a rigid correspondence between the rank and position, so, say a division (nominally a major general billet) can be and often is commanded by a colonel. So Polenin was demoted (from CO to XO), but not downranked, as he kept his Captain rank.
* ColdWar
* CorruptCorporateExecutive / ObstructiveBureaucrat: More like Corrupt Politburo Party Members. The vast majority of the K-19 problems can be traced to shoddy construction, including the use of substandard parts on critical systems as cost cutting measures and yet the Party still wanted to have it launch on deadline and [[TemptingFate not fail]].
** Not to mention that Party Members believe the crew can deal with the radiation contamination, just by barking even more orders and eating fresh fruit.
* DistantFinale: There's an epilogue that takes place 28 years after the main body of the film, that shows the surviving crew members reuniting to finally give the seven [[HeroicSacrifice heroes]] a proper tribute.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Radtchenko's Heroic Sacrifice is eerily similar to [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Spock's]].
* DownerEnding: Due to the politics of the Soviet Union, the men that sacrificed their lives so that the rest of the crew could survive got little to no merit; several more crew member would have health complications for the rest of the lives, some even succumbing to cancer; and everyone got slapped with basically a gag-order that prevented them from talking about the events of the K-19 disaster.
* FailedToPayShippingCharges: The crew used a diesel sub for filming and it shows. Nuclear subs are ''much'' roomier, though the cramped interiors of a diesel boat just make a better stage for the [[RuleOfDrama drama]].
* {{Fingore}}: While unloading a torpedo, a sailor's hand gets mangled when its caught in the chain pulley.
* GoingCritical
* HazmatSuit: Unfortunately, the Quartermaster's office screwed up and gave them suits rated for ''chemical'' hazards instead of ''radiation'' hazards. Not that it would make much difference. No hazmat suit short of solid lead PoweredArmor could really protect from the radiation of the live nuclear reactor, and even that not all that well. Modern radiation hazmat suits mainly protect the wearer from radioactive ''material'' contamination, being just a slightly beefed up chemical suit.
* HeroicSacrifice: The second half of the movie is pretty much a series of these.
* IronicEcho: At the beginning of the film, when a drill supervised by party members, Polenin gives his own name when asked who is the person resposible for such failure. When the reactor fails and Vostrikov demands who is responsible for the reactor failure, Polenin gives Vostrikov's own name and the new reactor officer he brought into the sub as the ones responsible.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Vostrikov pushing people to the edge early in the film, while stressing his crew badly, eventually proves useful as it allows them to operate better once the reactor fails.
* LetThemDieHappy: The poor soldiers who sacrificed themselves to prevent K-19 from going critical.
* {{Lzherusskie}}
* MnogoNukesMissileSubmarines
* TheMutiny: Technically Barratry; the political officer attempts to countermand Vostrikov and give command to Polenin so they can [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandon ship.]] He refuses and has them locked up.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast : The Widowmaker. Although in RealLife, it didn't earn a nickname till after its nuclear accident, which by the way, was "Hiroshima."
* NauticalFolklore : Why the crew thinks is a bad omen that the bottle didn't break during the RibbonCuttingCeremony.
** It's also usually considered bad luck to have two captains on one ship.
* TheNeidermeyer : Vostrikov is portrayed like this at the beginning of the film, he gets better as the film progresses. He eventually comes to the realization that his duty to his men is more important than the duty to the Soviet Union when the party members make it clear they care more about looks / public opinion than the lives of the men under his command.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: To the amusement of some, Harrison Ford seems to alternate between this and bursts of {{Lzherusskie}}. It's more egregious with Liam Neeson however.
** One reviewer remarked that they were the most American and Irish Russians ever, though at one point Harrison Ford himself starts to sound more Irish than Russian, which he probably picked up from hanging out with Liam Neeson too much. Quite a few of the other sailors (those who weren't Russian-born) have [[OohMeAccentsSlipping wobbly]] accents, too.
* PatrioticFervor: What drives some of the people that willingly went into the reactor.
* OminousLatinChanting: Whenever they have to go into the reactor and fix the reactor cooling system.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: See {{Lzherusskie}} above.
* RibbonCuttingCeremony: It does not bode well when the bottle fails to break. A sailor even remarks they're ''cursed''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A sailor jumps off the submarine when the alarm sounds off again after one of the rigged coolant pipes fails.
* SomeoneHasToDie
* ShowingOffThePerilousPowerSource
* SubStory
* TheSoCalledCoward : Lt. Radtchenko, who suffered a total nervous breakdown and did not assist in the first effort to repair the cooling system for the reactor, does the reparations all by himself when the first efforts failed later in the voyage, spending more time inside the reactor than any other men.
** TimeToStepUpCommander
* ThisIsNotADrill
* TitleDrop: While ''The Widowmaker'' is actually never said within the film, Radtchenko said that if they fail to fix the coolant leak, it would be ''Hiroshima'' all over again, a nod to the actual nickname the K-19 got in real life.
* VehicleTitle : The Aforementioned K19
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The film plays fast and loose with the facts, abandoning them whenever it allows to play up the RuleOfDrama. Just to name a few, it conflates the first and the second accidents with the titular sub while completely forgetting the ''third'', changes its nickname, and adds a lot of ColdWar cliches like the crew mooning Americans.
* WorldWarIII : Vostrikov tells the crew that because an American destroyer is trailing them too closely, and very close to a [=NATO=] base, he fears that if the sub goes critical and the destroyer gets caught up in it, then America/NATO might misunderstand and nuke Russia in retaliation.
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