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  • US 'torpedoed Kursk nuclear sub'

    05/22/2005 2:27:06 PM PDT · by demlosers · 141 replies · 4,645+ views
    The Australian ^ | May 09, 2005 | Daniel Stacey, London
    A FORMER British military official has backed a sensational claim that the Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, was torpedoed by US forces in August 2000. An official inquest concluded that the disaster – in which all 118 crew drowned in the Barents Sea, 135km off the Russian coast – was caused by an accidental explosion of an onboard torpedo. But Maurice Stradling, a former torpedo engineer and a key figure in the original investigation, believes a new French documentary, The Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters, should change world opinion on the sinking. "On the balance of probabilities, the Kursk...