In 1961, the Cold War between the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union became increasingly serious, and a little bit of Mars could trigger a third world war. In response to the threat of American nuclear submarines, the Soviets pinned all their hopes on the first missile submarine, the K-19.
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The K-19 missile submarine is one of the sister ships of the Soviet Type 658 nuclear submarine (NATO code name Hotel class) and is equipped with three R-13 nuclear missiles in the control tower enclosure. However, it was a warship full of ominous signs from construction to launch. During construction, dock workers were killed by the hatch of the missile launch bay while loading the nuclear missile; an engineer was stuck between two watertight compartments while working inside the submarine; when the boat was launched, the champagne bottle smashed on the bow of the ship was not broken; then, the military doctor on the boat was hit and killed by the car transporting foster care..... This series of accidents made the K-19 known to the officers and men of the Soviet nuclear submarine as an ominous boat.
Hostel-level cross-sectional view
In June 1961, the K-19 took a nuclear warhead to the Mehr region for its first voyage. Captain Varkov was well aware of the significance of the voyage, so he trained his crew rigorously from the very beginning of the voyage. When the submarine approached its destination, the submarine dived at great speed to reach the maximum depth of the submarine, and then the submarine floated out of the sea at great speed to break through the ice and launch a missile from the submarine's command tower enclosure, at which point Vaskov and his crew withstood the test and completed the expected goal.
However, on July 4, 1961, the disaster officially befell. Due to the defects in welding, the cooling system pipeline of the reactor on the K-19 suddenly broke, resulting in an uncontrolled continuous heating of the nuclear reactor and the danger of meltdown at any time, and more seriously, if the temperature rises further, it is very likely to detonate the nuclear missile on the K-19. NATO's military base on Greenland is close at hand, and once it is suddenly affected by a nuclear explosion crisis, it will inevitably determine that the Soviet Union will launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack, and then the US military will definitely carry out a nuclear counterattack against the Soviet Union, and eventually involve the entire earth in the abyss of disaster. The situation was urgent, and Vaskov took the advice of the technical department to build a pipe from the freshwater warehouse to the reactor, hoping to use fresh water to cool the reactor. But the last section of the pipeline connecting the reactor requires people to personally enter the reactor compartment for welding, and inside is a hell with strong nuclear radiation. In the end, eight death squads rushed into the reactor compartment in batches for welding, and after the welding was completed, the eight team members vomited endlessly, and a month later, all eight members of the team died of high-dose nuclear radiation, while the rest of the boat was infected with sequelae due to nuclear contamination, and the sacrifice of the crew saved the fate of K-19.
At this point, a crisis that could trigger a nuclear war at any time was successfully resolved by the crew of the K-19. Upon returning home, however, the Soviet authorities forbade all crew members to talk about the accident. Years later, Vaskov reunited with his comrades in the same year's hardships and shared memories of that unforgettable time.....
"Their sacrifice was not for a medal, it was their duty when that moment came..." It is no exaggeration to say that Varkov, together with his comrades-in-arms, saved the world with a spirit of fearless sacrifice. In the film, the K-19 crew rescues the nuclear reactor without regard for life and death, and the captain's final speech to the crew explains what is the responsibility of the soldiers, and it is no longer just a slogan for the motherland.