On August 12, 2000 the Russian nuclear submarine APL “Kursk” sank in the Barents Sea during exercises of the Navy’s Northern Fleet. In so doing the entire crew of the submarine, consisting of 118 people, died. In traditional Russian fashion, an investigation was opened and a criminal case was pursued for this accident, only to be terminated in July of 2002 for lack of a corpus delicti.

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We do not know the truth about the tragedy to this day.

Ironically, the decision to “classify” a military tragedy of this magnitude is actually the most direct route toward making sure that something similar occurs again. As such, these kinds of incidents with our nuclear submarines are repeated constantly, from year to year, and are likely to continue to be repeated. The accident on APL «Nerpa» is just one confirmation of the trend.