1979 newspaper US Navy launches its 1st TRIDENT NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE Ohio Cl - $30 - (Parkton, MD)
1979 newspaper US Navy launches its 1st TRIDENT NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE Ohio Class Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: http://stores.ebay.com/Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO-----An ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Milwaukee Journal (WI) dated Apr 8, 1979. This issue has a front page headling and long report of the US NAVY LAUNCHING of its FIRST TRIDENT (Ohio Class) NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE. There was a lot of anti-war demonstrations over the launch of this new war weapon. This issue is the complete front news section only, NOT the entire newspaper. Great for display purposes !!! The Ohio class is a class of nuclear-powered submarines used by the United States Navy. The navy has 18 Ohio-class submarines: 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) and four that were later converted to guided missile submarines (SSGN). The Ohio class is named after the lead submarine of this class, USS Ohio. The 14 Trident II SSBNs together carry approximately fifty percent of the total US active inventory of strategic thermonuclear warheads. The exact number of warheads deployed across the world varies in an unpredictable and classified manner, but always at or below a maximum number set by various Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties. Although the Trident missiles have no pre-set targets when the submarines go on patrol, the warships, when required, are capable of quickly being assigned targets by using secure and constant radio communications links at sea, including very low frequency (VLF) systems. All the Ohio-class submarines, except for USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN-730), are named for U.S. states, which until that point was a tradition reserved for battleships and cruisers. The Ohio-class submarines are the largest submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy. Two classes of the Russian Navy's submarines have larger total displacements: the Soviet-designed Typhoon-class submarin…
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