Polaris

Acknowledgements; Glossary; Foreword One; Foreword Two; Introduction; 1 The Nuclear Age; 2 The V2. Operations, Prufstand XII and BACKFIRE; 3 The US Navy experiments with missiles; 4 The Germans at White Sands; 5 Raborn's Special Projects Office; 6 The US Submarines; 7 The Missile; 8 The Holy Loch Agreement; 9 The Poseidon Adventure; 10 The Human Element. Admiral Zumwalt and farewell to foreign bases; 11 The Royal Navy's path to Polaris; 12 The Skybolt Crisis; 13 The Polaris Sales Agreement; 14 The Royal Navy's Submarines; 15 The Clyde Bases; 16 Operational Problems; 17 Chevaline; 18 Shakespeare's leisure companion to the young Prince Hal; 19 The Perils of the Sea; 20 Towards the End; 21Polaris and the Surface Fleet; Appendix I: The US Navy '41 For Freedom' and the Royal Navy SM10; Appendix II: Chevaline Launches; Appendix III: Profiles; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Armas nucleares
• Forças navais e guerra
• A Guerra Fria
• História do século 20 do pós-guerra, de c 1945 a c 2000

US Navy; Royal Navy; SSBN; Harold Macmillan; John F. Kennedy; Blue Streak; Skybolt; Hyman Rickover; William Raborn; USS Nautilus; Polaris; missile-armed nuclear-powered submarine.