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Tue 02 Feb 2009British and French nuclear subs collide in Atlantic
THE GOOD news was that it proved the British nuclear missile submarine was virtually undetectable. The bad news was that HMS Vanguard was rather too undetectable, apparently moving so stealthily that it was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) was under intense pressure last night to explain how the Vanguard, which can carry 48 nuclear warheads on 16 missiles, had crashed into Le Triomphant – payload 16 missiles – in an incident some experts say could have caused a nuclear catastrophe.
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