Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001

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Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened missile attacks on their adversary’s homeland, providing in many respects the most survivable nuclear deterrent of the Cold War. For both East and West, the modern submarine originated in German U-boat designs obtained at the end of World War II. Although enjoying a similar technology base, by the 1990s the superpowers had created submarine fleets of radically different designs and capabilities. Written in collaboration with the former Soviet submarine design bureaus, Norman Polmar and K. J. Moore authoritatively demonstrate in this landmark study how differing submarine missions, antisubmarine priorities, levels of technical competence, and approaches to submarine design organizations and management caused the divergence.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Potomac Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2005
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1574885308
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1574885309
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.2 x 0.9 x 10.9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #606,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #879 in Naval Military History
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