What has Happened: Yesterday, President Trump said on social media that he had “ordered two nuclear submarines” to be repositioned in response to online threats from Russia’s former president, Dmitri Medvedev. It is extremely rare for the U.S. military to publicly discuss the deployment and location of U.S. submarines given their sensitive mission of nuclear deterrence. It was not clear what kind of nuclear submarines to which President Trump was referring (attack submarines vs. ballistic missile submarines). The United States has nuclear-powered attack submarines that search for other submarines, but it also has far larger, nuclear-powered, and nuclear-armed submarines. The ... Academy SITREP – U.S. Repositions Nuclear Submarines in Response to Russian Threats