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"This true story happened in the 1960s, at a time when the USSR was in a Cold War with the western world. The Soviet Navy obtained a new "sophisticated" weapon - the nuclear submarine with its short range rockets, which allowed access to the US coast, by way of the North Pole, from under the ice. A group of young people, who had just recently graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding College, were taken by the Soviet navy (involuntarily and unknowingly) on a suicide mission. The navy needed technical professionals able to take care of the imperfect and dangerous new submarines. The young people were assured that there was no danger in those operations and were ordered, by their commanding officers, to treat nuclear reactors as safe normal radiation mechanisms. There was only one sailor-technician from this group of involuntary die-hards, who survived: The author of this book. This incredible and true story of survival involving Soviet submarines, nuclear disasters and escape from the claws of the Soviet Secret Police has become a case study in a specialized branch of the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps. The book was written and published first in Russian, then translated and publis

Author

Leonid Tokarsky

Publisher

Contento De Semrik

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781071350928