The Belgrano - a cruiser - was torpedoed by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror on 2 May 1982.

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Defense Secretary Dick Cheney demonstrated this principle in spectacular fashion at the end of the Cold War when he managed to kill a hundred major programs everything from the Abrams tank to the Seawolf submarine to the B-2 bomber during a four-year run at the Pentagon.

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On August 2, 2007, a Russian submarine with two parliamentarians on board planted a titanium flag two miles beneath the North Pole.

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