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Summary Of The Trident Deception

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The book The Trident Deception by Rick Campbell is about an Ohio class ballistic missile submarine also known as Tridents. They're called because of the twenty-four Trident2’s which are multiple individual reentry vehicle intercontinental ballistic missile also known as a MIRV ICBM. Each of the Trident2's can hold up to eight individual thermonuclear Warheads. In total they hold 192 thermonuclear warheads that is enough to turn a country into a hot steaming crater and then bring the world into a nuclear winter. The setting of the book changes from place to place and the mood changes as well. The book has been made to have a bigger picture with a lot of different locations move and over a hundred people. So the setting changes with the …show more content…

Tom gets on the Kentucky to do a routine patrol for a decent amount of the year. A little while later wile out in the ocean the Kentucky receives valid but not from the U.S. government the launched orders, and their comms get sabotage. The Kentucky cannot receive the termination order. The entire PAC Fleet is ordered to sink a Chinese exact replica of a U.S. Trident submarine, but it is really the Kentucky. A P-3c anti submarine propeller airplane finds and hits the Kentucky with a mark 54 lightweight torpedo. Only that torpedo hit the superstructure that was made for the missiles it's caring to make it stealth, so it doesn't sink the Kentucky. The Kentucky makes it through the blockade and starts launching. Kentucky only launches four before it engages with the HMAS Collins. The Kentucky fight the Collins while the North Carolina is pursuing the Kentucky. There was a program on the computer so that the SM-3s and THAAD’s didn't hit in the missile. They disable the program so they can now hit the missiles, three SM-3 where aimd for the first 3 missiles. While four THAAD missiles were aimed at the fourth ICBM. The three SM-3s hit the missiles, but missile four nicknamed Redemption when a technician and engraved Redemption into its nose cone deploys all eight of the warheads a minute later the THAAD hits the missile. The clock in NMCC keeps counting down they have eight SM-3 and eight Warheads each has to hit, seven out of eight hit. They have to find something to hit the Warhead otherwise 16 million people will have a fiery death, the SM-3 was an upgraded SM-2 and the SM-6 is an upgraded SM-2 as well. They launched one SM-6, they hit as soon as the clock hits zero. In the Collins was the only thing stop in the Kentucky from launching a full slavo of all twenty-four of the Trident2s. Murray told the Collins to sink the

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