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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by trevyn on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:05PM (#19176781)
It does require continuous readiness to launch nuclear ballistic missiles from a surprise location, otherwise the “mutual” part of mutually assured destruction is less assured:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine-launched_ballistic... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_strike

Also, the US essentially controls the world’s oceans, and that comes with a whole bunch of benefits, wartime or peacetime.

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Re:The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing by Pharmakon on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:37PM (#19176896)
I think you’ve made an honest error here, confusing the power plant of the subs with their payload. SSN’s are attack subs, not armed with nuclear SLBMs like an SSBN.
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