"WalterScottGray" wrote in message
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Rage in Italy

"It's the umpteenth demonstration not only of the grave risks to which
the civilian population is exposed [...] but also of the culture of
silence that invariably covers military activities in Sardinia," Italian
Green Party MP, Mauro Bulgarelli said in Parliament, according to the
Independent. "

I think it is more the Green party that is outraged rather than "Italy"
in general. Anyhow, Italians famously outrage easily and get over it just
as quickly after a bit of arm and finger waving. ;-)

The chances of a grounding, even a "violent" grounding turning into a
nuclear incident (the release of radioactive material) are virtually nil.
The chances of that same incident turning into bad press and/or bad politics
are another matter altogether.

By the way, I remember an incident from my own Navy days when a
submarine returned very early from a deployment after an underwater
collision with a submarine from another country. It was 10 years later
before I read about that incident in the press. They don't call the
submarine nave the "silent service" for nothing. What happened?

Vaughn