On Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 11:17:52 PM PST, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote: On 2/6/20, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-pentagon-idUSKBN1ZY2EQ Jim Bell's comment:.  So, the Russians are complaining about low-yield nuclear missiles.  So, what should we do?  I know, call them and reassure them:. "Okay, we've replaced the micros with 1 megaton babies.  Feel better now, Ivan?".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroacoustics infohash:60B3EC5EE26FCA234DA34EC7153444E876F3C29A No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent subs wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, with all hands lost, 30 years ago. It tells the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start. And it reveals how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. [snip] Somebody in the early 1980's said to me that "If you want to see American attack submarines  converge on the Straight of Juan de Fuca (near Seattle), just immerse a hydrophone into that water, and emit sound at a frequency of 50 Hertz,