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Nuclear scare sparks Broken Arrow alert in 1975 ship collision
Retired Adm. Eugene Carroll said he sent a secret coded transmission to the Pentagon after a fire aboard the USS Belknap near Sicily threatened nuclear missiles during a 1975 collision with the USS John F. Kennedy. Greenpeace and IPS charge a cover up, noting the alert and casualties.
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