Something else: i.e. human error. I dont believe it was the russians. They are not stupid to start a war, that was never their doctrine anyway, contrary to the american hollywood movies. Probably someone just screwed up, either on design level or during the patrol. But anyone will believe in whatever they want. The US military is very secretive anyway, so you will never know what really happened. but I will try to catch and read that book though.

Comrade Lenin sunk the Scorpion.

However, I read a couple decent articles that pointed toward the torpedo fuel breeching the actual submarine hull. One discussed a fuel explosion/fire, and yet another discussed some kind of inter-tube malfunction that resulted in some serious flooding that couldn't be controlled (i.e. warhead explosion).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/045...393641?ie=UTF8

Mutual nuclear kill, says that novel, that obviously draws some parallels to the Scorpion-affair.

Maybe it was Bernard? He seems to screw up everyones U-boat in SHIII? How did he manage to survive the war? :hmm: