Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the Nr-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub - Softcover

Vyborny, Lee; Davis, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451211618 ISBN 13: 9780451211613

Publisher: New Amer Library, 2004

Synopsis

A former crewmember offers a detailed description of the U.S. Navy's top-secret, four-hundred-ton submarine, an expensive, dangerous vessel with a custom-built miniature nuclear reactor designed as a secret weapon during the Cold War. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"A useful addition to modem naval history and pure candy for submarine buffs." -- Roland Green - Booklist Review 12/16/2002

"Move over Cussler and Clancy, here comes a new author to tell the true life story of American derring-do... Great reading!!" -- Gene Kranz, former NASA Flight Director and author of the New York Times bestseller FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION.

"The NR-1 was Rickover's baby, his version of an underwater Airforce One, a boat he built with sheer chutzpah..." -- Sherry Sontag, co-author of BLIND MAN'S BLUFF: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

"This book had me up till 3 a.m. ... All submariners and Cold War history buffs will absolutely love this book!" -- Michael DiMercurio, a USA Today best-selling author of submarine novels

"the commitment and heroism of men who ventured into unknown and hostile seas below was not unlike that required in the exploration of the heavens above." -- Captain Gene Cernan, USN (Ret.), commander of Apollo 17 and the last man to walk on the moon.

From the Author:

Dark Waters is the story of the Submarine NR-1
How and why it was built
Its mission(s)
The people who brought it to life
The excitement encountered during its early operation
All told as an action-adventure tale from the perspective of an initial crewmember. It includes 16 pages of largely unpublished photographs of the boat and the principal people involved.
Structure:
The NR-1 is the subject and we maintain several interwoven threads to describe its progress:
The first person narrative of a crewmember
Admiral Rickover and his drive to create the boat
The NR-1’s progress from idea to actual operations
The rapidly changing backdrop of Cold War events
The recollections of the people who built and manned it.
Content:
The book contains chapters that:
Establish what was going on and the narrator’s place
Describe a typical Cold War submarine patrol
Summarize events leading to the building of the NR-1
Detail the construction and testing of the boat
Follow the crew:

During their training for the NR-1

While they learned to operate in contact with the bottom

Reconstruct a number of exciting missions, and

Reveal some of the unexpected adventure experienced.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Amer Library
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0451211618
• ISBN 13: 9780451211613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256