Two nuclear submarines collided on the night of February 3rd 2009, one British, the other French, causing extensive damage to both.
CND today described the reported collision of the British Trident nuclear-armed submarine HMS Vanguard and her French equivalent Le Triomphant as ‘a nuclear nightmare of the highest order’.
The crash is said to have all but destroyed the sonar dome of the French boat and left visible scrapes and dents on the hull of HMS Vanguard, which carries 16 Trident missiles and up to 48 nuclear warheads – each eight times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. Le Triomphant carries the same number of missiles, though each warhead is even more devastatingly powerful.
Read the full story on the National CND website at http://www.cnduk.org/index.php/press-releases/trident/trident-submarine-crash-a-nuclear-nightmare.html