Title: Red star rogue
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.
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, Military - Intelligence/Espionage, Voenno-MorskoÃ¦i Flot, Intelligence Agencies, Submarines, History, History - Military / War, Military - Nuclear Warfare, Biography/Autobiography, Military, Military - Naval, Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations, History / Military / Nuclear Warfare, Voenno-Morskoæi Flot, Soviet union, navy, Submarine warfare, Soviet union, history, naval
Places: Soviet Union