Sea of Okhotsk
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Nov 8, 2026
David AdamsNARRATOR
Etelmen culture is emerging from its gulag, and the Hantai are back in favor.
David AdamsNARRATOR
I leave the forest and there's my journey's end, the Sea of Okhotsk on Kamchatka's western shore.
David AdamsNARRATOR
It's a coast that faces Mother Russia, the past and memories of cultural repression.
David AdamsNARRATOR
To the east lies America and distant cousins, now not so distant.
speaker_0HOST
Kamchatka was home to sensitive military sites, and Soviet fighters scrambled, but they didn't catch it.
speaker_0HOST
The 747-crossed Kamchatka flew out over the Sea of Okhotsk and headed towards Sakhalin.
speaker_0HOST
There, Soviet air defense was waiting.
speaker_0HOST
Three Su-15s and a MiG-23 were involved.
Alex SmithHOST
So instead of the Hokkaido Kidnapping Map, we got two games.
Alex SmithHOST
Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Okhotsku ni Kiu, sorry for any pronunciations, which translates as The Hokkaido Serial Murders, like Portopia Serial Murders, Missing in the Okhotsk.
Alex SmithHOST
I don't know how to pronounce that.
Alex SmithHOST
It's not important.
Liselotte OdgaardGUEST
So it always had ice-hardened submarines that were nuclear-powered and that had nuclear weapons.
Liselotte OdgaardGUEST
So these are the very potent SSBNs that were located, for the most part, at the Kula Peninsula and the Barents Sea, but also on the other side at the Sea of Okhotsk by Japan.
Liselotte OdgaardGUEST
But most of them are at the Barents Sea.
Liselotte OdgaardGUEST
And they pose a second strike capability so that Russia can answer a nuclear attack from the U.S. by, you know, have confidence that it can attack back and hitting the U.S. mainland.
29 MINS LATER
Eric PagliaHOST
What about the Bering Strait, on the other hand, much closer to China?
Liselotte OdgaardGUEST
Well, there they operate quite closely, as mentioned.
Liselotte OdgaardGUEST
And China has access to the other bastion defense, where Russian submarines are at the Sea of Okhotsk, where China is sort of on the exit route.
Liselotte OdgaardGUEST
So there they are much further in their overt military cooperation.
Lise Lotte OdgaardGUEST
So it always had ice-hardened, uh, submarines that were nuclear powered and that had nuclear weapons.
Lise Lotte OdgaardGUEST
So these are the very potent SSBNs that were located, for the most part, at the Kola Peninsula in the Barents Sea, but also on the other side at the Sea of Okhotsk by Japan.
Lise Lotte OdgaardGUEST
But most of them are at the Barents Sea, and they pose a second strike capability so that Russia can answer a nuclear attack from the US by, you know, have confidence that it can attack back and hitting the US mainland, because submarines are movable, so they complement land-based missiles that are also often mobile today.
Lise Lotte OdgaardGUEST
And these submarines can come out from under thick ice in the Arctic and fire their missiles through Greenlandic airspace or over the North Pole, where, as we talked about before, our systems for detecting these missiles are the least effective, and also the weather is cloudy, et cetera, and that also makes for difficulties in, in detecting incoming missiles, and it's also the shortest route.
28 MINS LATER
Lise Lotte OdgaardGUEST
And so I think China will try to signal that they will allow them to kind of keep that to themselves, to not bother Russia too much.
Eric PagliaHOST
What about the Bering Strait, on the other hand? Much closer to China.
Lise Lotte OdgaardGUEST
Well, there they operate quite closely, as mentioned, and China has access to the other Bastion defense, where Russian submarines are at the Sea of Okhotsk, where China is sort of on the exit route.
Lise Lotte OdgaardGUEST
[chuckles] So there they are much further in their overt military cooperation because, you know, in Europe, China wants to remain plugged into Europe economically, scientifically, and so far it has had great success in maintaining that relationship.