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"U.S. Nuclear Fleet’s Dry Docks Threatened by Storms and Rising Seas"

"Damage to key military shipyards would undermine the Pentagon’s ability to respond to military crises and counter China’s ambitions."

"PORTSMOUTH, Va. — At the foot of the Chesapeake Bay in southeast Virginia lies a Naval shipyard older than the nation itself. One of the country's first warships was built here in 1799. So was the first battleship, and decades later the first aircraft carrier.

Over a quarter millennium, Norfolk Naval Shipyard has been blockaded and burnt to the ground by the British, the Union and the Confederates, only to be rebuilt again and again to evolve into a hub of Naval power.
Dangers Without Borders: An ICN Series on Military Readiness in a Warming World

Today, it's an essential maintenance facility for the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers, and it's facing a threat that could shut it down permanently."

Nicholas Kusnetz reports for InsideClimate News November 19, 2018.

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"Dangers Without Borders: Military Readiness in a Warming World" (InsideClimate News)

Source: InsideClimate News, 11/19/2018