Invisible nuclear-armed submarines, or transparent oceans? | 2019 | News Invisible nuclear-armed submarines, or transparent oceans? Are ballistic missile submarines still the best deterrent for the United States?January 7, 2019 Owen Cote in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 75, 2019 - Issue 1: Special issue: Spotlight on nuclear modernization. His article is titled "Invisible nuclear-armed submarines, or transparent oceans? Are ballistic missile submarines still the best deterrent for the United States?"