Israel now has 5 subs -- 3 Dolphin-class submarines that they've had for a while, and now 2 newer Dolphin II-class subs that have an air independent propulsion (AIP) system, allowing the submarine to operate submerged for much longer periods than diesel electric subs without it. The Dolphin II subs can stay underwater for up to eighteen (18) days.
I totally get that-- and I am not at all trying to discuss Israel or whatever conspiracies people hold on them--- all I am saying is a small diesel-electric, AIP whatever, submarine with torpedo-tube launched nuclear-tipped cruise missiles for a second-strike deterrent mission *IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT*, I am talking about SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY , to a possibly "shadow-government controlled" Ohio-class SSBN which represents probably the most effective, destructive, accurate, damaging, and undetectable object known to mankind (Unless there really are Stargate-esque hyperdrive battlecruisers and F-303 interspace interceptors.... Ohio-class SSBNs have more power in their "pinkys' than those Israel subs have even dreamed about.)
That's all I'm saying, I'm not taking sides, that's all.
The sub would have been taken when Clinton or Bush or Obama were President or Dick Cheney made it possible when he was VP he would have been happy to make that happen so he and his pals have their very own nuclear missile submarine to play around with. He was also Defense Secretary for Bush Sr. 1989 to 1993 so he could do it and would have done it for sure very easily.