The subs in question weren't equipped with nuclear missiles though if my memory is correct
The 'nuclear' refers to nuclear-powered rather than nuclear weapons-carrying.

The Polaris boats would have been kept well away from the area, although they could have hit Argentina from pretty much anywhere on the planet.

I suspect the nuclear option was just a hypothetical exercise in case things went tits-up. I'd be amazed if the mad old bag would have seriously considered it.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:15, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

You imbecile, their navy didn't want to end up like the Belgrano

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:18, Reply)

I didn't disagree with that, you ignorant tattie-muncher
Read the fucking post.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:21, Reply)

Spaz, the presence of the Conqueror kept their navy in port
you used it as an exercise in showing off that you know the difference between the propulsion system of a submarine and what comes out the top.

Christ have you never read commando
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:25, Reply)

I wasn't arguing that, you boss-eyed ignoramus
Presumably English is your second language.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:31, Reply)

You should revisit the post that I'm mocking, get someone to explain it to you and then go and kill yourself with the shame

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:33, Reply)

I was clarifying a point made by localboy, which he then agreed with.
If you can't understand that then I recommend that you DYAAKY.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:35, Reply)

Don't get me started on your fat wife whose kept the house leaving you in a bedsit cooking tins of beans on an iron.

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:38, Reply)

I didn't. Clearly you have some kind of attention disorder.
Perhaps you were dropped on your head as a child.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:41, Reply)

uv totes pwnd rory, iv lost all respect 4 him

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:53, Reply)

:(

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 12:02, Reply)

you are correct....
the subs were nuclear powered but armed only with normal torpedoes.

Apparently the Argentines were more worried about a conventional bombing of their capital by Vulcans than any nuclear option.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:22, Reply)