Summary
In the North Atlantic Ocean, on the night of Feb. 3-4, at an undisclosed depth, the British nuclear submarine Vanguard and the French nuclear submarine Le Triomphant ran into each other. Both boats were "boomers," missile-firing submarines carrying 16 ballistic missiles, each of which can deliver several nuclear warheads at intercontinental range.
That still ought to be enough, but they are also deliberately running blind. If they operated their "active" sonar (the thing that goes "ping" in the war movies), they would detect everything on and below the surface for many kilometres around them -- but everything they heard would also hear them.He has a lot on his plate right now, but here's a step in the right direction that costs nothing: announce that the U.S. Navy will no longer run "combat patrols" with its nuclear missile-firing submarines, and invite the world's other nuclear weapons powers to follow suit.See the full content of this document
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It's Time to Dock Nuclear Submarines
A ship I once served in had a small brass plate on the bridge with a quotation from Thucydides, the Greek statesman, historian and seaman of the fourth century BC: "A collision at sea can ruin your whole day." It is still true.
It is harder to collide at s...See the full content of this document
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