As for the original post question
Delta III and IV along with the Typhoons do not need to forwardly deploy into the Atlantic they are fully capable of launching missiles from home port the the United States.
These types stay in home waters protected by ASW forces its called the Bastion concept.
By 1984 with the SALT talks most of the elderly SSBN's such as the Hotels and Yankees were converted into Special projects submarines Radar Pickets or just had their silo's filled with concrete and used as attack submarines or became SSGN's or even test platforms. as we know 1 was lost K219 after a incident with a missile.
Given that the Yankee's main missile had short range it did mean they had to deploy forward into the Atlantic this also meant they would be sacrificed in war as the Russians did know they would take heavy losses should war break out.
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