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The Soviet ‘Hiroshima’ Submarine That Inspired Harrison Ford’s ‘K-19: The Widowmaker’
K-19 was the first submarine of the Soviet Union’s Project 658, the first generation of Soviet nuclear submersibles that carried an armament of nuclear ballistic missiles.
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The vessel was quickly built, due to US submarine developments during the Cold War. On K-19‘s maiden voyage in July 1961, she suffered a nuclear incident, which earned her the nickname “Hiroshima” and inspired the 2002 Harrison Ford film, K-19: The Widowmaker.
K-19 was an unlucky submarine
In the 1950s, the Soviet Union began constructing a nuclear submarine fleet.
Ordered on October 16, 1957 and laid down a year later, K-19 was unlucky from the very start. During the vessel’s construction, eight workers died: two were killed in a fire, while six more died after inhaling fumes when gluing rubber lining to a water cistern.
Following construction, two more people died.
An engineer fell