In December 2023, the United States unilaterally announced a claim to a huge chunk of seabed well outside its internationally-recognized boundaries off the northern coast of Alaska. Does the US have the resources to enforce its claim? And how do its capabilities stack up against those of other major maritime powers? Sputnik explores.
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The world’s first nuclear-powered icebreaker, “Lenin”, which is also considered the first nuclear-powered civilian ship in the world, was built in the Soviet Union and officially entered into service on December 3, 1959.That date marked the beginning of the Soviet/Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet, the most numerous and potent of its kind on the planet.