The Truth About the Titanic: A Cold War Mission Kept Secret Until 2018

The truth regarding the 1985 expedition that eventually found the Titanic finally emerged in 2018. Declassified information meant that Robert Ballard could reveal that the team had in fact been part of a secret US military mission to investigate two sunken nuclear submarines at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Ballard would state: “They did not want the world to know that, so I had to have a cover story.” Back in the 1980s, Ballard was a commander in the US Navy and a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. Ballard had been building an underwater research vessel to realize his lifelong dream of finding the Titanic. It was his obsession...

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