Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tass, the official Soviet news agency, reported that fire broke out on the sub 620 miles northeast of Bermuda. The announcement said three people were killed but there was no danger of nuclear explosion or radiation contamination...
...Pentagon official said it appeared most of the crew on the sub, which normally carries 120 people, had been moved...
...ship is a Yankee-class sub-marine, which according to the Jane's Fighting Ships, is an old-class submarine that first appeared in the mid-1960s, capable of carrying 16 missiles. Each ship has two nuclear reactors to drive two steam turbines...
Armacost said there was a report that at one point the sub "had been under way at a very slow speed under its own power, perhaps auxiliary diesel power." But "other difficulties apparently developed," or the sub "had been stopped briefly," he said...
...said Gorbachev's decision to notify Reagan about the fire on the sub 24 hours after the fact was "pretty good...