![]() Unfortunately, the Russians have caught wind of the true motivation behind the Americans' attempt to find and salvage the Titanic, and they're not exactly happy about it. Unfortunately the device will only run on some Unobtanium, the only known supply of which went to the bottom of the ocean on April 15th, 1912 during the sinking of the Titanic. Gene Seagram, top scientist for a heavily-funded top secret government think tank, designs a defense system that would make it impossible for Russian missiles to hit any target in the continental United States, rendering the ICBM obsolete and shifting the balance of world power decisively in America's favor. It was first published in 1976, a full nine years before the wreck of the RMS Titanic was discovered, and as such, the plot unintentionally takes a few liberties with the plausibility of salvaging the doomed ocean liner (until the wreck was found, most experts assumed it remained intact after sinking rather than breaking in two).ĭr. ![]() ![]() Raise the Titanic! is an early novel by Clive Cussler, the third entry in the Dirk Pitt Adventures series and his first bestseller. ![]()
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