Scenes From the New Cold War
Military moves in a melting Arctic.
BY NEIL SHEA
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LOUIE PALU
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 26, 2018
Author’s note: This story was later updated on NatGeo’s website to reflect developing news, but I prefer the version as it was originally published, which I’m sharing here and also lives on, here.
On a calm, bright morning in August 2007 a pair of Russian submersibles dropped 14,000 feet to …
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