[whermans]

This article chases clicks by parroting hyperbole from a remembrance service as fact.

This is not the first, nor the worst fire aboard a nuclear submarine. Komsomolets burned and sank with both a nuclear reactor and nuclear warheads on board. The reactor scrammed and was not damaged by the fire; the warheads' biggest risk was leakage of radioactive material.

Losing a nuclear submarine in a fire is a potential catastrophe for the local environment and a tragedy for the fallen crew, but hardly an event that justified the "planetary" scale.

[credit_guy]

Plus one. And here’s a handy reference to the wikipedia page dedicated to the 9 sunken nuclear submarines so far

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_subma...