The sub in the picture is a current Russian nuke boat.
In a story by Robert Krulwich on Nat Geo, we get the story of Russian nuclear submarines and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The story is here.
For those of us who served during the Cold War, the vivid thing in this story is the layers of restraint in the Soviet system. During the Cold War, America faced a civilized enemy. Our civilizations differed, but each side wanted to be the superior civilization.
Our current enemy, Islamic Terrorists, have no civilization and are the enemies of all civilization.
I very much miss having a uniformed enemy with a 1000-year-old culture.
