# Did the USSR have the cability of sinking a US Aircraft carrier during the Cold War? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 16, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-ussr-have-the-cability-of-sinking-a-us-aircraft-carrier-during-the-cold-war/229554 "2004-02-16T21:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Buran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Buran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buran)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-ussr-have-the-cability-of-sinking-a-us-aircraft-carrier-during-the-cold-war/229554/21 "2004-02-18T22:47:48Z")
> [@paperbackwriter](#): > > The OP specified “during the Cold War”, however, this is a 55-year time period (1945-1999)(2), and therefore too broad. > > 2: Standard dates are 1946-1999, but IMHO, the tensions started to be evidence at the Yalta Conference. This is a good and interesting post, but the accepted span of the Cold War was 1945 - 1989. Perhaps 1991, but by that date the USSR is about to vanish and the tensions between east and west were virtually gone by 1989. 45 years not 55. ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-ussr-have-the-cability-of-sinking-a-us-aircraft-carrier-during-the-cold-war/229554/22 "2004-02-18T23:54:54Z")
You’re completely correct; I plead no contest to Misplacing a Decade. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-ussr-have-the-cability-of-sinking-a-us-aircraft-carrier-during-the-cold-war/229554.md?page=1)