This one sentence from John Craven's book fascinates the author: "there existed a possibility, small though it might be, that the skipper of this rogue submarine was attempting to launch or had actually launched a ballistic missile with a live warhead in the direction of Hawaii. Today our greatest fear is that terrorists may someday acquire a nuclear weapon and use it against us. Red Star Rogue reads like something straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, but it is all true. Could the information gleaned from the sunken sub have been a decisive factor shaping the new policies of detente between the Americans and the Soviets, and opening China to the West? And who in the USSR could have planned such a bold and potentially catastrophic operation? forged new relationships with the USSR and China. During the successful recovery effort, the U.S. This was a carefully planned operation that, had it succeeded, would have had devastating consequences. With the recovery of the sub, it became clear that the rogue was attempting to mimic a Chinese submarine, almost certainly with the intention of provoking a war between the U.S. Contrary to years of deliberately misleading reports, the recovery operation was a great success. The new Nixon administration launched a clandestine, half-billion-dollar project to recover the sunken K-129. intelligence was able to pinpoint the site of the disaster. While the Soviets searched in vain for the boat, U.S. We now know that the Soviets had lost track of the sub it had become a rogue. Compelling evidence, assembled here for the first time, strongly suggests that the sub, K-129, sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile, most likely at the naval base at Pearl Harbor. One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last.Early in 1968 a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been.
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