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US Navy Has a Sub That Could Drop 154 Tomahawk Missiles on North Korea
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By Sebastien Roblin, The National Interest

The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine [3] (SSBN) was built to destroy cities and military installations in the event of a nuclear war—or more precisely, to deter adversaries from ever starting one. However, following the end of the Cold War, the U.S. Navy determined that it didn’t need all eighteen of its underwater horsemen of the apocalypse for the nuclear deterrence mission.

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