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Uneasily aware that the increasingly prosperous and powerful nations of Western Europe would not forever accept total U.S. control of nuclear weapons, the U.S. offered more than two years ago to give them a voice in their disposition and use-but left it to Europe to devise a formula. It...
Manning the Ethan Allen was its "Blue Crew"; the Polaris submarines two-platoon their crews, and the alternate "Gold Crew" was now at New London, Conn. For Polaris crewmen a patrol starts with a change into a special navy-blue Dacron and cotton coverall. The coverall reduces lint in the...
Any order to fire the Ethan Allen's holocaustic weapons would come in a coded message on the sub's low-frequency radio. Like all Polaris subs on station, the Ethan Allen receives a constant stream of "familygrams," routine orders and plain "garbage"; the idea is to keep...
The skipper then takes his place in the control room, opens a lock, to which only he has the combination, on a red "fire" button. This sets off a carefully coordinated sequence in which at least 15 men are vitally involved. At last, Lacy pushes the red button-and holds...
All this has taken just 15 minutes from the receipt and authentication of the coded order. From then on, a missile can be fired every minute for 15 minutes. Those missiles are the Ethan Allen's reason for being. And in the Ethan Allen and 40 other Polaris submarines...