Establish “Rules of the Road” in the Gulf ArticleJune 23, 2009 Establish “Rules of the Road” in the Gulf In the past four months, two European submarines carrying nuclear weapons collided in the Atlantic Ocean, Chinese ships harassed a U.S. Navy vessel in the South China Sea, an American nuclear submarine ran into the USS New Orleans in the Strait of Hormuz, and a Chinese submarine collided with an underwater sonar array towed by the U.S. destroyer John S. McCain off the coast of the Philippines. Jun 23, 2009 Lawrence J. Korb, Trita Parsi