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The USS Kentucky - a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of 192 nuclear warheads - is about to go on a routine cruise. Not long after it reaches the open sea, however, the Kentucky receives a launch order. After receiving that launch order, it is cut off…
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Submarines are a huge fascination of mine, and this book had plenty of them. What really grabbed my interest in this book were the US Navy submarines that carried nuclear missiles and the procedures that went into launching them. Governments can order the launch of nuclear missiles, but it’s the crew that has to agree to execute those orders. The moral weight of implementing weapons capable of mass destruction is a terrifying thought, which is apparent in the book.
Written by a former US Naval Submariner, I learned so much about how submarines work and operate. At one point during…
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