Sentences with phrase «american nuclear submarine»

One such gap was closed in January, 2005, when an American nuclear submarine making 33 knots 500 feet beneath the surface crashed headlong into an uncharted seamount 360 miles southeast of Guam.

Academy Award - winning Cold War thriller based on Alister MacLean's bestseller stars Rock Hudson as an American nuclear submarine captain in a deadly race against the Soviets to find a downed satellite beneath the polar ice cap.

An American nuclear submarine will carry six civilian scientists on a 42 - day research cruise under the Arctic ice pack this summer.

This is the first time an American nuclear submarine has been used for civilian research.

«It had been 30 years since anyone had seen an American nuclear submarine propeller.»

Not exact matches

An announcement is imminent on the successor submarines carrying the nuclear deterrent, according to Lord Hennessy, the historian and member of the British American Security Information Council's cross party Trident Commission.

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear arsenal ever since.

Despite decades of cat - and - mouse sonar hunts by American and Soviet nuclear submarines, no one had mapped this vast chunk of rock until now, or run into it (as has happened elsewhere).

And for years nuclear submarines (Russian, American and British) have been measuring ice thickness from the bottom, using their sonar.