This episode explores how nuclear submarines transformed the Cold War balance of power, focusing on the deadly underwater cat-and-mouse games between American and Soviet submarines beneath the Arctic ice. Professor Thatch examines the strategic doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, the mysterious losses of USS Scorpion and K-129, and the audacious CIA operation to recover Soviet submarine technology. The episode reveals how these steel leviathans became the ultimate guarantors of peace through the promise of mutual annihilation.

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