The USS Scorpion: The Nuclear Submarine That Vanished in 1968 With 99 Men and No Answers
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Kyle Mizokami
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The USS Scorpion, a nuclear-powered submarine, vanished in 1968 during a secret mission with 99 crew members, a nuclear reactor, and two nuclear weapons aboard. The Navy has never provided a definitive explanation for its loss, leaving the incident unresolved and heavily debated. The wreckage lies on the Atlantic Ocean floor roughly 400 miles southwest of the Azores, and unlike other lost US submarines, Scorpion's story remains shrouded in mystery and official ambiguity.
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· 3 pulledScorpion was the last American submarine to leave on patrol and never come back.
The Navy has never fully explained the loss of the submarine and its 99 crew members.
That has left Scorpion in a strange place in American naval history: officially unresolved, heavily studied, and still argued over by people who
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