In talks this week with U.S. officials, Russian diplomats proposed a new bilateral agreement designed to prevent dangerous submarine incidents at sea, an agreement that would build upon a 1972 pact that covers surface ships, but U.S. officials declined the offer, a Navy spokeswoman told InsideDefense.com . Instead, the U.S. delegation renewed a 1994 offer to formalize a relationship between the professional submarine communities, said the spokeswoman, Lt. Jensin Sommer. Sommer said she did not know how the Russians reacted...
