Nuclear boat "Nautilus" as part of the secret competition between the USSR and the USA in the field of new technologies
In the Soviet Union, the first nuclear submarine appeared three years later, and in addition to the “linear” name B - 3 (K - 3), it received an additional name, “Leninsky Komsomol”. Faster (up to 30 knots under water), she also visited the North Pole, and even surfaced there, but this was 4 years after the Americans. So they won this competition. But in 1959, the USSR put into operation the first surface nuclear-powered vessel in the world, by the way a civilian one, the icebreaker Lenin.
The peculiar race between the USA and the USSR, although it often made all of humanity nervous because of the possibility of nuclear war, was still a source of important innovations not only in the military, but also in the civilian sphere.
Nuclear power plants, the first surface and underwater nuclear powered ships, and finally, space exploration. All this was the result of the “rocket” race between the USA and the USSR. The space race has begun. And although humanity has stood on the verge of a nuclear war more than once, it never happened. And useful inventions were also useful in the civilian sphere.
