内容紹介
The Soviet nuclear submarine K-19 was the pride of the Soviet Navy, but on July 4, 1961, during its maiden voyage to the North Atlantic for war games, it suddenly and unexpectedly developed a serious leak in one of the reactors. In a race against time, the officers and crew worked desperately and brilliantly, under intense exposure to radiation, to improvise a coolant system, averting a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster. The toll for their efforts was certain and devastating: Eight men died painful deaths from acute radiation poisoning within days of the accident, and the surviving crew returned home to await their unknowable fate.
Featuring a complete history of the actual events, with passages from the submarine captain' s memoir, and rarely published historic images, K-19 places readers at the apex of the Cold War' s brinkmanship between the USSR and the United States. It is the companion book to the upcoming National Geographic feature film about this gripping tragedy, "K-19: The Widowmaker, starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson. Including information on the making of the film, with production stills, and cutaway drawings of the submarine, this powerful volume combines authoritative history and the magic of moviemaking to give the reader the real backstory to K-19.
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世界なんて一瞬で終わる…。冷戦時代の際限ない軍拡競争が、沈黙の海の底に末曾有の怖恐を引き起こした。一九六一年、旧ソヴィエト連邦が極秘に開発した原子力潜水艦K‐19は過酷なミッションをともなう処女航海へと出港する。しかし当時の乗組員たちは、艦搭載の高度な核弾頭技術にくらべたら、素人同然の放射能対策しかとっていなかった…。きしむ潜水艦のなかで突然襲いかかる原子炉暴発のパニック!仲間たち、そして自分にふりかかる死の予感。極限の状況下で男たちは何を考えるのか。
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