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* [[Truth in Television]] once again. [[wikipedia:Submarine aircraft carrier|Everyone from the United States to Japan has toyed with making these]] at one point. Japan actually deployed at least two dozen such subs of three different designs by the end of World War II. Several were tasked with "doomsday" attacks on the American mainland using biological weapons, but these were never successfully developed and the subs were reassigned to attack the Panama Canal. Before they could actually act on these orders, the war ended and they were seized by the United States. Rather than allow the technology to fall into Russian hands per war alliance treaties, the Navy chose to [https://web.archive.org/web/20080920171144/http://starbulletin.com/2005/03/20/news/story1.html scuttle the subs instead]. One of these subs became part of the plot for the [[Clive Cussler]] novel ''Black Wind'', in which it actually was carrying biological weapons.