Red Star Rogue

PullerRommel

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I don’t know if anyone has read the book Red Star Rogue The summary reads "In the dark hours of March 7, 1968, a lone submarine prowled the surface in open waters of the North Pacific. The slender sub rolled easily in swells raised by twenty-knot wind. Occasionally, the whitecaps racing ahead of the wave crests broke over the low forward deck, sending foaming rivulets of seawater to hide the rust streaks weeping from the boat's aging welds.
A coast watcher might have mistaken the submarine for some naval relic with an oddly long fin emerging from the depths to fight a sea battle of the Second World War. Such identification would have been only partly right. This sub, despite its angular U-boat appearance, carried three atomic age ballistic missiles snugly in its extended sail....Each carried a one-megaton thermonuclear warhead.
The usual elation of the crew at finally being back in man's normal realm on the surface was suddenly cut short when they heard an order barked over the intercom, the order for battle stations, missile launch. All compartments were to report ready when sealed. The order was followed by: ‘This is not a drill'"

The book is a true story only recently uncovered after years of cover-ups.
It not only describes the events leading to the launch but it also shows the disrepair the Soviet military was in at the time.

Red Star Rogue
By: Kenneth Sewell with Clint Richmond
 
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