alth that, more than anything, convinced intelligence officials that submarines could be the next logical step in the creation of an eavesdropping network that would circle the Soviet Union (Sontag, 9) America was coming up with new submarines, taken from German models, which were quieter, safer, and technologically advanced, and using them to sneak into Soviet waters. Some submariners were daredevils who risked not only their crews lives, but the national security, some argued. One in particular went straight into the Okhotsk Sea to find and tap Soviet telephone cables no one was sure even existed. However, the Navy would do almost anything to try to beat the Russian threat. The cables were finally found and tapped, and a store of information brought up out of the deep, frigid waters of Okhotsk. America felt it now had the upper-hand on the Soviet Union. However, all it took was one man in the NSA to leak information out to the Soviets. It seemed that no one could ever be safe from Soviet infiltration. This fear could not last forever. As presidents changed and governments changed, people began to realize that their fear was irrational. Sailors in the Navy began to question their orders.This was eavesdropping. What the hell were they doing crawling into the Soviet Unions backyard and tapping a military cable in peacetime? Why were they risking their lives for a mission they were all sure the United States would never acknowledge? Why were they riding a boat with a captain who had made it clear that his hand was on the self-destruct button? Why were they riding a boat that could disappear with a workd to their families of how or why? Once it began, there was no stopping it. Fear, anger, concern, poured across the table What once struck them as exciting and daring now seemed just plain illegal and dangerous. (Sontag, 251)In the same way, in the movie Dr. Strangelove, when the Russians first built the doomsday machine, they felt it to be ...
