— -- Shipwreck disaster experts are calling for a deep-sea expedition to a lost U.S. nuclear attack sub, the USS Scorpion, in an effort to verify a new theory on what caused the Cold War vessel ...

May 27—GROTON — Fifty-six years ago to the day, a dock reserved for the returning USS Scorpion sat empty while Navy wife Mary Gilbert consoled the ones whose husbands would not return. On Monday, she ...

NEWPORT NEWS — The bell tolled one-by-one Sunday for the names of the 99 sailors who were lost aboard the USS Scorpion 57 years ago. In May 1968, the Norfolk-based nuclear submarine imploded and sank ...

Key point: It is still unknown what exactly sunk the submarine. In May 1968, a U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarine was sent on a secret mission to spy on the Soviet navy. Seven days later, with the ...

Key Point: Nuclear submarines are a powerful that can have powerful consequences when something goes wrong. The discovery of wreckage from the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan in November 2018 grimly ...