Red star rogue
Subtitle: the untold story of a Soviet submarine's nuclear strike attempt on the U.S.
By: Kenneth Sewell with Clint Richmond
Contributors: Richmond, Clint
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780743261128
Subjects: Cold War; Submarine disasters; Jennifer Project; K-129 (Submarine); Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot; Submarine forces; Russia (Federation). Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot; Russia (Federation); Soviet Union
Description: This book reads like a Tom Clancy novel, but it is all true. Today our greatest fear is that terrorists may someday acquire a nuclear weapon and use it against us. In fact, they have already tried. In 1968 a Soviet submarine sank off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile, most likely at Pearl Harbor. We now know that the Soviets had lost track of the sub; it had become a rogue. While the Soviets searched, U.S. intelligence was able to recover the sunken sub, and it became clear that the rogue was attempting to mimic a Chinese submarine, almost certainly with the intention of provoking a war between the U.S. and China. Could the information gleaned from the sunken sub have been a decisive factor shaping the new policies of détente between the Americans and the Soviets, and opening China to the West?--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-294) and index.