Popular Culture
As ballistic missile submarines, the Ohio class has occasionally been portrayed in fiction books and films.
- USS Alabama is the setting for the film Crimson Tide.
- The sinking of the fictional USS Montana is the inciting incident in James Cameron's 1989 film The Abyss.
- The fictional USS Colorado, a ballistic missile submarine, is the primary setting for the ABC television series Last Resort.
- The fictional USS Idaho, is the primary setting for the PC Computer Game Silent Steel.
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