The only reason that hadnt happened in the US is nobody in the middle class has missed any meals. Lots of empty shelves, but you can still find something to eat in the next aisle over (maybe not what you intended to shop for). If the upcoming/ongoing trucker strikes effect the supply train to the point people who never missed a meal in their lives go to bed hungry... politicians will not be able to walk the streets. That's when all the distractions and rhetoric fall short. Empty bellies.
A nuclear sub blowing up would not blow up in that fashion. How to put this... a nuke is not like a bag of gunpowder that, if ignited, will kersplode and kill everyone around it. A sub blowing up would go down with its nukes intact, it would not arm the nukes. At least, I assume... i've never been on a nuclear sub so i dont know what the protocol is for sinking subs. My guess is those nukes are expensive and recoverable tho. So if the ship goes down i dont think "set off the nukes" is protocol. But it could be. Maybe if a rival nation had salvage ships in the area and the sinking sub knew its own side would not get to the jettisoned nukes first they would set them off rather than let them fall into enemy hands...
It was rigged. Rams aided by 3 or 4 penalties on the gamewinning drive. Anytime a ref does that it's because he knows which side is supposed to win