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General Belgrano

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  • In law of war: Weapons

    …sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano, therefore, was not contrary to international law despite its being attacked outside the Total Exclusion Zone that the British government had declared around the Falkland Islands.

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  • Bradley Allen Fiske
    In naval warfare: The age of the guided missile

    …pre-World War II cruiser (the General Belgrano, formerly the USS Phoenix) by a nuclear-powered attack submarine (HMS Conqueror) on May 2 but, less obviously, in the harrying of the whole British fleet by one Argentine diesel-electric submarine. Second, the nature, if not the full extent, of the threat of modern…

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