Word: nuke
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...batteries for underwater propulsion, can move at full speed for only a few miles, then have to slow down to a walk to save electricity. A destroyer that makes sonar contact can hover over such a sub for hours, dropping slow-sinking depth charges. But the nuclear submarines-called "nukes"-can cruise underwater for weeks at top speed. When a destroyer makes sonar contact with one of them, it must attack instantly or its nimble prey will dodge and speed away. Only a quick-acting, long-range weapon has much chance of killing a nuke...