Red Star Rogue - The untold story of a Soviet Submarine’s Nuclear strike attempt on the U.S. - by Kenneth Sewell with Clint Richmond. A compelling true story of one of the great secrets of the Cold War! Formerly secret Soviet documents recently made public reveal that the K-129 had gone rogue from Soviet naval command. We now know that the K-129, under the operational command of Soviet hardliners, attempted to mimic a Chinese submar Author Kenneth R. Sewell is a nuclear engineer and a US Submarine Force veteran who spent five years as a spook aboard USS Parche, the Navy’s most decorated Cold War submarine.ine and execute the launch of a nuclear missile (most likely at Pearl Harbor Naval Base) in order to foment war between the U.S. and China.