Ethan Allen in Fiction
- In Tom Clancy's novel The Hunt for Red October, the decommissioned Ethan Allen was destroyed with a fuel-air explosive to cover for the escape of the defecting Soviet Typhoon-class submarine Красный Октябрь (Red October). The destruction of Ethan Allen was intended to simulate the explosion and sinking of a nuclear missile submarine, although the Ethan Allen–class submarines were considerably smaller than Typhoons.
- Ethan Allen also appears in the novel Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
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