US nuclear sub met by protests
May 10, 2021
The US Navy’s nuclear-power submarine
USS New Mexico tied up at a civilian harbour just outside Tromsø in Northern Norway on Monday, to a warm welcome from Norwegian defense forces and protests by angry local residents. The latter fear such sub berthings will make their home a target in the event of war, and that there’s little preparedness for a nuclear accident.
The US nuclear powered submarine
USS New Mexico docked here at Tønsvik northeast of Tromsø early Monday afternoon. PHOTO: Forsvaret/Helene Sofie Thorkildsen
“I’m here to show our opposition to what’s happening here now,” one demonstrator, Brage Skrede Kyllo, told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). “I’m worried about those who live around here.”