Sentences with phrase «soviet nuclear submarine»

The 618 - foot Glomar Explorer, a former CIA vessel built during the Nixon administration to recover a Soviet nuclear submarine that sank deep in the Pacific, was converted into a deepwater - drill ship.

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).

Not exact matches

The Soviets have recently put more nuclear submarines on our doorstep in response to our installing the Pershing II in Western Europe.

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.

The best submarine commander in the Soviet Union (Connery, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) now leads the maiden voyage of the Red October, a spiffy new nuclear submarine capable of going undetected by sonar, to the United States.

Packed with too many stars to mention, Jack Ryan, played by Alec Baldwin, finds himself on the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Dallas trying to convince its Captain, Bart Mancuso, that a Soviet submarine they are chasing is actually looking to defect, not to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons as the Soviets claim.

Finally, the submarine, especially the Rickover nuclear powered submarine provided the science of the oceans, its currents, polar ice caps and mapping the relevant underwater terrain that had the Soviets always chasing the US science EXCEPT for Sputnik and Yuri Gagarian.

A Soviet submarine was armed with nuclear weapons.