"AN-1: America´s Plan for Submarine Aircraft Carriers" Topic
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Tango01 | 05 Jan 2021 9:19 p.m. PST |
"Today, America's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and ballistic missile submarines represent two of the most potent forms of force projection wielded by any force in military history. For a short time in the late 1950s, America had plans to put them together into a single GI Joe style superweapon: A submarine aircraft carrier. For a short four years after the United States dropped the only atomic bombs ever used in anger on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, America enjoyed a monopoly on the destructive power of splitting the atom. But on August 29, 1949, America's former World War II allies in the Soviet Union conducted their own nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan. While America's use of atomic weapons may have brought the world into the atomic age, it was truly the Soviet test that hurled the world's two dominant superpowers into the decades-long staring contest we now know as the Cold War…" link Main page link
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