Lost Nukes of the Cold War (Full Episode) | Drain the Oceans

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Lost Ships

The USS Independence, an aircraft carrier that fought in World War II, was found in an unmarked location off the coast of Northern California.
The USS Thresher, a nuclear-powered submarine, went missing during sea trials off the coast of New Hampshire in 1963.
Deep-sea explorer Dr. Bob Ballard discovered the wreck of the Thresher in 1985.
A Soviet submarine, K-129, armed with three nuclear missiles, went missing in the North Pacific in 1968.
Recently acquired images from a source in America show parts of the wreck of the K-129.

The Independence was used in a top-secret research project to study the effects of nuclear weapons on ships.
In the 1960s, a US B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs exploded over Spain.
Three of the bombs were found, but the fourth one was lost in the Mediterranean Sea.
Spanish oceanographers have mapped the Mediterranean seafloor and located the lost nuke 2500 ft down.
A hydrogen bomb, 100 times more powerful than the one that destroyed Hiroshima, was lost off the coast of Spain in 1966.
After an extensive search, the US Navy located the bomb but failed to retrieve it due to a snapped rope.
The bomb was eventually recovered using a cable-controlled robot.
The cause of the explosion that destroyed the Soviet submarine K-129 is still unknown.
The remains of K-129 and its nuclear missiles are still on the ocean floor, along with an unknown number of other Soviet warheads.

The US and Russia are currently rearming with new nuclear missiles, raising concerns about the potential for future nuclear conflicts.