A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with nuclear warheads. In the US Navy they have the designation SSBN and they are nicknamed 'boomers', a common term of art used in everyday briefings and base operations. Virtually all ballistic missile submarines are nuclear powered and are therefore nuclear submarines.
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