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Friday, January 16, 2009
A man's world under waves
In the nerve centre of HMS Vengeance I'm just inches from 'the button'.
Not the big red button of the movies but 16 small, square white keys each ready to trigger one of the 'bomber' submarine's 16 Trident missile tubes.
The intercontinental weapons of mass destruction have a range of more than 4,000 nautical miles and could change the shape of the world forever.
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ReplyDeleteAnother rare insight into the submarine world. And not US either. The video portion was especially interesting.
Pete