Reddit reviews Hostile Waters

What I find interesting is that in the US the submarine service is very tight lipped, but in Russia (especially post Soviet Union) they're much more open about it. I have extended family who are/were in the US Navy and other military branches, including a cousin who was the intelligence officer for an aircraft carrier group, and his son is currently deployed on a sub somewhere. None of my family members talk very much about their service. Those that do pretty much only talk about things that happened 50+ years ago.

I remember when the book Blind Mans Bluff came out, which explored the history of the US submarine service, and went into detail about a number of missions pulled off by them from the 50's up through the late 80's. It detailed how US subs were venturing into Soviet territories on a regular basis to tap undersea telephone cables on a regular basis, etc. When my dad asked a friend who was a former sub commander about the book his response was "Heads should roll for what was discussed in that book".

On the other hand, my understanding is that the authors of books like Hostile Waters, which documents a near meltdown of a reactor in a Soviet submarine, had very little problem meeting with and talking to some of the surviving crew members of that submarine.

The sub sunk in the Atlantic at depth of 6000 meters. Wikipedia quotes this book: https://www.amazon.com/Hostile-Waters-Peter-Huchthuasen/dp/0312966121 which says that when two years after it sunk the Soviets went looking at the wreck, they found some missile tubes open and the missiles gone. If true and the Russians didn't do it, then the US did. But most of the missiles and the two reactors are still at the bottom of the ocean.