It's time to mothball unneeded nuclear attack submarines.

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: ELAND, IVAN | Copyright information

In the post-Cold War era, 25--instead of the proposed 50--submarines would be more than enough to assure U.S. underwater security.

DURING the latter stages of the old War, the U.S. force of nuclear-powered attack submarines reached approximately 100. A primary mission of those vessels was to fight the large Soviet attack submarine force. In any conflict, U.S. attack submarines also would have hunted Soviet nuclear-powered subs designed to launch nuclear-tipped ballistic ...

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