SubSerpent

Oh I don't know. Some of you all act like you know the exact answer and yet several different nations TOP leaders with more inside info still don't and never will find the exact answer. Perhaps something did happen within the submarine, but I still think that is extremely unlikely considering they had been out to sea for 97 days already and only had a few days to go to get home. It is proven now that the Russian's for some time did know our exact location, were able to intercept and decypher our incoming/outgoing communications. That and it only being two months after the Russians had lost one of their own subs, (and blaming the US for colliding with it), makes me think that it was an act of aggression that Russia did for what they believed to be payback for their lost submarine. I do believe that top US officials and top Russian officials "talked" and decided to keep the incident quiet to prevent hostile relations from escalating any higher than they already were. Let's think about this...99 men on a submarine perhish vs. a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the US with millions of deaths. I think I would take the offer to stay hush hush on the matter and forget about the 99 sailors that died.

I'd also like to think that those 99 men didn't die without a great cause if the above theory is correct. If it is correct, I'd say those 99 men died saving the world from nuclear winter between our two nations. Their lives were the "BILL" that Russia wanted to keep from going to nuclear war. I think tensions in the Soviet Union were very high that THEY had lost a submarine and that everyone in the world believed that we (the US) were the cause of it. The Soviet government needed to act to prevent and show their own people that Russia would play this game as an eye for an eye scenerio.