THE BARENTS SEA is not a hospitable place for visitors. "Frequent snow storms...blotted out the land for hours on end," wrote an unlucky British submariner sent there to snoop around during the cold war. "We faced the beastliness of spray which turned to ice even before it struck our faces." American and British warships have not exercised there since the 1980s-until they returned last week.
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