Decommissioning and Disposal
Barbero ended her nuclear strategic deterrence patrols and returned to the Pacific for decommissioning on 30 June 1964. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Registry on 1 July 1964, prior to being used as a target and sunk by the submarine Greenfish (SS-351) off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 7 October 1964.
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