Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. |  | Authors: Kenneth Sewell, Clint Richmond
Creator: Brian Emerson
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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ISBN: 0786173947
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Red Star Rogue Belongs on the Bad Fiction Shelf September 8, 2007
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As discussed by William Twist and the originator of this review in earlier reviews of RED STAR ROGUE (RSR) posted on this site, RSR has serious credibility problems in several technical areas.
One of these problems is so egregious that the entire conspiracy theory edifice propounded by RSR stands or falls on this single issue.
Kenneth Sewell, the author of RSR, conjectures that K-129, a GOLF Class Soviet diesel submarine sank in March 1968, while attempting to launch a missile at Pearl Harbor to trigger a Sino-American war. The launch position was estimated in RSR to be about 350 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii, well within the range of the GOLF missile system.
The enormous problem with the RSR position is that the Air Force Technical Applcations Center (AFTAC) compared the arrival times of underwater acoustic signals generated by the GOLF when it sank at five locations (Wake Island, Midway Island, Eniwetok Island, Kaneohe, Hawaii and Adak, Alaska) to establish the position of the sinking with what is known as a time-difference-fix solution.
The AFTAC position, provided by a now declassified Navy document, was 40.1N, 179.9E or 1600 nautical miles from Honolulu, 700 NAUTICAL MILES BEYOND THE MAXIMUM RANGE OF THE GOLF R-21 MISSILE.
The AFTAC position also is OVER 1000 NAUTICAL MILES from the position postulated by Kenneth Sewell in RSR.
The AFTAC position is the position to which US forces went and it is the position where they found the wreckage of the GOLF in 16,400 feet of water. Where the GOLF sank is beyond dispute.
On this single point, the RSR conspiracy edifice collapses and the book is is exposed as a fictional invention without substance or credibility. For whatever reason the GOLF sank, it had nothing to do with any conspiracy to attack Honolulu with a nuclear-warhead-equipped missile.
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