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Mighty. Powerful. Threatening. The battleship New Jersey steaming off the coast of Beirut looks all of these things. But had she been armed with nuclear SLCMs she might not have been there at all, considering her presence could have escalated U. S. involvement. Will nuclear Tomahawk-carrying ships on show-of-force missions drive potential crises out of control?
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