Two Nuclear Subs Go Bump In the Night

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7892294.stm

This is both hilarious and terrifying.

She said it might be that the anti-sonar devices, which hide the submarines, were to blame.

"This is clearly a one-in-a-million chance when you think about how big the Atlantic is," she said. "It is actually unbelievable that something happened."

Unbelievable indeed. Seems Tom Clancy fiction is closer to the truth than I thought. "We" (ok the Brits and French) have billion dollar nuclear subs playing chicken at the bottom of the Atlantic.

What's the scariest part of this? The prospect of hundreds of sailors drowning thanks to these games? Or the prospect that these clowns have the keys to nuclear armeggedon?