Bizarre Twist of Fate - The Only Ship Hit by a Nuclear Submarine
After intercepting a communications line, British intelligence discovered that the Argentinian Navy was plotting a massive attack on the Falkland Islands, a small archipelago that both nations claimed as their own.
On April 29, 1982, a British nuclear submarine spotted the ARA General Belgrano light cruiser approaching a couple of hundred miles from the exclusion zone.
However, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her war cabinet considered that the heavily armed cruiser was too close for comfort, and the Iron Lady gave the order to fire against the vessel.
Forty-one years after surviving the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the former USS Phoenix, now General Belgrano, was close to being sunk by the United States Navy's ultimate ally…