SpaceWar.com reports: “A Russian nuclear-powered submarine — which will not be carrying nuclear weapons — will visit Havana next week, Cuba’s communist authorities said Thursday.

The nuclear submarine Kazan and three other Russian naval vessels, including the missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov, an oil tanker and a salvage tug, will dock in the Cuban capital from June 12-17, Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces said in a statement.

‘None of the vessels is carrying nuclear weapons, so their stopover in our country does not represent a threat to the region,’ the ministry said…”