TRIDENT SUB. KEEL LAID
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) GROTON (Connecticut), April 11. The keel of the nuclearpowered Trident submarine, U.S.S. Ohio, was laid yesterday, marking the beginning of the construction of the first of four such vessels. Addressing a crowd of 7500 gathered for the cerem£*y. Senator Robert Taft said: “Deterrence must remain the foundation of our national security. "There is, I believe, no man among us who does not wish that the security of this, and every nation, did not depend upon a nuclear balance of terror, but neither is there anyone here who does not know that our most basic security, our very national life, depends on being prepared to deter nuclear war or blackmail.*’
Senator Taft’s wife, Katherine, cut her initials In the keel as part of the traditional ceremony. The General Dynamics Corporation’s electric boat division is constructing the U.S.S. Ohio, which, when commissioned in the late ’7os. is expected to be the world’s most powerful submarine.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34126, 12 April 1976, Page 17
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