The story involves Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, a Lithuanian submarine commander in the Soviet Navy and son of a prominent Soviet politician.
He intends to defect to the United States with his officers on board the experimental nuclear submarine Red October, a Typhoon-class vessel equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system that makes audio detection by sonar extremely difficult.
The result, immediately apparent to Jack Ryan and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a strategic weapon platform that is capable of sneaking it's way into American waters and launching nuclear missiles with little or no warning.
In the '80s, CIA analysts put together a 20-part series detailing what would actually happen if the events of Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October" really took place. It's now a CIA insider classic and available for the public to read.
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