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fleet ballistic missile submarine

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noun

  1. a nuclear submarine fitted with launchers to fire ballistic missiles either underwater or from the surface.

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Some 40 ft. below the roiling water, a grinning redhead, wearing the two stars of a rear admiral, thrust his way through the crowded companionway of the Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine George Washington and clapped her skipper, Commander James Osborn, on the back.

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