The sinking of the Kursk, a Russian nuclear submarine, on August 12, 2000, with the loss of all hands in the icy waters north of Murmansk, came close to being a disaster of international magnitude. For John Large, who as a teenager had been expelled from Dulwich College for blowing up a chemistry laboratory, evaluating the nuclear risks of raising it was the most challenging job of his adult life.
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