05-26-2020, 10:50am
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A Real Barner
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Originally Posted by Steve_R
There are two types of nuclear powered vessels in the Navy; submarines and targets. I never served on a target.  |
That didn't make you guys immune to accidents.
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Three years later, on May 27, 1968, the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) suffered an accident and sank with all 99 men on board in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 644 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of the Azores. The Department of Defense in 1981 mentioned a nuclear weapons accident occurred in the Atlantic in the spring of 1968 but continues to classify the details. It is thought that two nuclear ASTOR torpedoes were on board the Scorpion when it sank.
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