Counterfactuals: Nuclear Disaster Aboard K-219
From The History Guy by Lance and Josh Geiger
February 24, 2026 · 1h 2m · Season 2 · Episode 127
About this episode
The episode discusses a Soviet submarine disaster and explores potential alternate outcomes.
On today’s episode, we talk about a soviet submarine disaster in the Atlantic, which averted potentially disastrous outcomes only by the heroism of its crew. But what might have happened if it went differently?
People in this episode
Hosts: Lance Geiger, Josh Geiger
Topics covered
- soviet submarine disaster
- heroism
- counterfactuals
- nuclear disaster
- Atlantic
Keywords
- soviet submarine
- K-219
- nuclear disaster
- heroism
- Atlantic
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: soviet
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