America’s Secret Submarine by Lee Vyborny (.ePUB)
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America’s Secret Submarine: An Insider’s Account of the Cold War’s Undercover Nuclear Sub by Lee Vyborny, Don Davis
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Overview: It was impossibly expensive, extraordinarily dangerous, and completely unarmed. The U.S. Navy’s state-of-the-art NR-1 nuclear powered submersible was the Cold War’s most closely guarded – and revolutionary – secret. In 1966, after the U.S. almost lost a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Spain, Admiral Hyman Rickover – father of the nuclear navy – outmaneuvered Congress and steamed full speed ahead on his brainchild: a spy mission and deep ocean recovery submarine with a miniature nuclear reactor that could navigate the ocean floor for weeks at a time. But operating at such depths would also cut off the crew should rescue become necessary.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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