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Nuclear submarines collide in Atlantic | guardian.co.uk

This pretty much sums it up: "They can't see each other in the water," one official said.  

Really?  Of course, this could be a massive coverup of renewed Franco-British squabbling, with the captains of each ship playing a high-risk game of nuclear chicken... Who turns away first?!

"Kate Hudson, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament chairwoman, described the incident as "a nuclear nightmare of the highest order".

"The collision of two submarines, both with nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons on board, could have released vast amounts of radiation and scattered scores of nuclear warheads across the seabed," she said. "The dents reportedly visible on the British sub show the boats were no more than a couple of seconds away from total catastrophe."

Hudson said it was the first time since the cold war that two nuclear-armed submarines were known to have collided."