The Torsk's sinking of the Japanese vessel marked the last U.S. submarine kill for over eight decades - that is until March 3 ...

In June 1943, a Kentucky congressman walked up to a microphone and gave Japan one of its greatest intelligence victories of WWII.

Modern nuclear submarines are some of the most complex machines of war ever constructed. They can remain at sea for years, can submerge for extended lengths of time, and they run almost silently. They ...

The drive to explore is one of the most potent human urges. Finding out what's just around the next bend has been a prerogative of humanity since the earliest hunters and gatherers. As long as there ...

Twenty years ago, Alice Smith began the hunt for the forgotten Civil War-era submarine Alligator Jr., the prototype for the first United States submarine USS Alligator. Both were designed by French ...

The Japanese Navy included five Type A midget submarines in the Pearl Harbor raid of 7 December 1941. Transported on board large I type submarines, the midgets were launched near the entrance to Pearl ...

You know that feeling when you're driving at night and see headlights in your rearview mirror, but you can't quite tell how close they are? Now imagine that, but underwater, with nuclear torpedoes, ...