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Following the second world war, dan summitt cruised the china sea in a destroyer. In tales of a cold war submariner, summitt tells the dramatic story of his military life on and under the sea, focusing on his experiences with nuclear submarines and admiral rickover, the father of the nuclear navy. The story of the submarine, by farnham bishop gutenberg ebook the submarine in war and peace. On patrol in three cold war attack submarines ebook free. Cold war submarine s covert operations against the soviet union by. Associate director, mit security studies program naval war college newport papers. In world war i, they were also employed effectively as commerce destroyers, and in world war ii that and hunting enemy surface warships were their principal roles. The story of the invention, development, and presentday uses of wars newest weapons, by willis j. Their crews carried out intelligencecollection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened missile attacks on their adversarys homeland, providing in many respects the most survivable nuclear deterrent of the cold war. In the cold war, nuclear submarines prowled the oceans, gathering intelligence or poised to launch a missile on command. The ussr had competition between different design bureaus, and the us had topdown management in which hyman rickover would try to destroy the career of anybody who disagreed with him. Nuclear submarines in the cold war nuclear submarines in. I like the setting,the writing style,the plot,the plot twists and the characters in the book were amazing.
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Submarines books on submarines including wwi, wwii and the cold war. Marolda, senior historian, naval historical center based on the chapter, cold war to violent peace, in w. The part played in the cold war by the royal navys submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the silent service, remains largely shrouded in secrecy. During the cold war, as part of its defense strategy against the soviet union, the u. Mclaren describes in riveting detail the more significant events that occurred early in the cold war during his seven years, 19581965, onboard three attack submarines. The best summary of cold war submarines is a witticism that the authors report hearing from a soviet submarine engineer.
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