Red star rogue
by Kenneth Sewell, Clint Richmond · first published 2005
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This book reads like a Tom Clancy novel, but it is all true. Today our greatest fear is that terrorists may someday acquire a nuclear weapon and use it against us. In fact, they have already tried. In 1968 a Soviet submarine sank off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile, most likely at Pearl Harbor. We now know that the Soviets had lost track of the sub; it had become a rogue. While the Soviets searched, U.S. intelligence was able to recover the sunken sub, and it be
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The book Red Star Rogue by Kenneth Sewell goes in depth on the theory that K-129 sank while on some kind of mission to launch a nuclear weapon.
on “Underwater Ears Everywhere” ↗…been far fewer incidents of humans causing nuclear war by either following or disobeying orders True - but if you add the words "nearly" and "allegedly", then it's not such a rosy picture. The book "Red Star Rogue" proposes the idea that the Soviet submarine K-129 was commandeered and attempted to launch a first strike on the United States in 1968. She was very far off her expected course when sunk, and allegedly…
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