Word: skagerrak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What may be giving the Russians pause is the fact that their support of Nasser's closing the Tiran Strait could backfire on them. The Turks, for example, might some day close the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, or the Scandinavians seal off the Baltic by blockading the Skagerrak and the Strait of Kattegat. Further, after implicitly endorsing Nasser's denial of the freedom of navigation, the Russians found themselves in the position of protesting that the U.S. had been guilty of the very same thing. Complaining that American planes had bombed a Russian ship berthed in a North...
...ceiling on the size of German destroyers be raised to 5.000 tons. He wants warships big enough to mount the latest A. A. rockets - and the 1,500-mile Polaris. His projected submarine force: 24 to 36 small coastal subs, designed to help block the Baltic at the Skagerrak Straits in case...