From: daellis94@gmail.com   
      
   Well, that's not strictly true.  SLBMs are by far the most survivable arm of a   
   nuclear triad, on the basis that their launch platforms are mobile and very   
   hard to locate.     
      
   In theory, you can tail a boomer with an attack submarine, but that assumes   
   you have located it, first, and being able to keep tabs on every one of an   
   opponent's SSBNs at all times is a monumental task.  At the height of the Cold   
   War, around the mid-   
   1980s, both the US and USSR alleged that their attack submarine fleets were   
   large enough to be capable of tailing all of the enemy's patrolling boomers at   
   any one moment.  Whether or not this was ever actually achieved or whether it   
   would have been    
   practical in the event of an attempt to counteract a first strike is difficult   
   to say.     
      
   At the very least, a pursuing submarine might be able to engage an SSBN after   
   it has managed to get off one or two of its missiles--an SLBM launch isnt a   
   quiet event, after all--and prevent it from firing any additional weapons, but   
   in that scenario the    
   boomer was still able to deploy one or two dozen warheads, so that's no small   
   amount of firepower.   
      
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