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Ballard’s 1985 Titanic Discovery Was Cover for Cold War Sub Mission
According to the National Geographic, Bob Ballard’s discovery of the Titanic was tangential to the real Navy mission of investigating two wrecked nuclear submarines.
The Thresher and Scorpion had sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean at depths of between 10,000 and 15,000 feet (3,000 and 4,600 meters).
The military wanted to know the fate of the nuclear [...]
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