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Through the icy, grey-green waters of Scotland's Holy Loch, past the Argyll highlands and into the North Atlantic slipped the nuclear-powered SSB (N) 608-more popularly known as the U.S. submarine Ethan Allen. From the wind-whipped surface it nosed silently into the world beneath, a...
Of the U.S.'s nine deployed Polaris submarines, the Ethan Allen and five others were on patrol last week. That two-thirds ratio is standard-although during the height of the Cuba crisis, all nine were ordered to sea. The location of the subs on patrol is known only...
Fine Watches. Last week, in an attempt to soothe Europe's restiveness by giving its Allies greater responsibility for their own security, the U.S. made its most serious pitch yet to share the planning and control of atomic weapons in Europe with Europeans themselves. Before NATO's 15...
Originally, in fact, the U.S. had hastily suggested that multi-manned, multinational Polaris submarines might be a logical progression from the independent Polaris subs that Britain has agreed to build (but has committed to NATO). Apart from the cost, however, Congress has already indicated that it is dead set against...
Seven NATO partners-Britain, Belgium, Italy, Greece, The Netherlands, Turkey, West Germany-were immediately receptive to Merchant's proposal. West Germany expressed the warmest interest; the British looked on the scheme with "mild benevolence." But all seven wanted to hear more about it, and allowed that the price was...