History
In 1993 the mini series Submarines: Sharks of Steel used the Topeka to produce segments of their program. During New Year's Eve 2000 the USS Topeka straddled the international dateline, thus was famously "in two millenniums at once".
In October 2002, after completing a Modernization Period in Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Topeka shifted homeport to San Diego, California, from Pearl Harbor.
Read more about this topic: USS Topeka (SSN-754)
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“Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.”
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“... that there is no other way,
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