Very nice, wish I could make it down to one if these subs.
One minor correction: when you were talking about the cuban missile crisis it should be noted that on most of the submarines, only the captain and political officer needed to authorize the use of the nuclear torpedo. B59 was a special case as Arkhipov, in addition to being the XO of B59, was actually the designated flotilla commander. This gave him joint authority with the captain in all tactical matters including nuclear weapon use.
Scary to think that if the same thing happened on any one of the other 3 submarines the weapon would have been used as only the CO and PO needed to agree. This happened on the only submarine in the crisis that needed 3 people to agree.
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Americans make better submarines? No my friend, Russia makes better submarines, Americans just make better computers 
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