
Cold War Submarines
The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001
Potomac Books Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-57488-530-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dulles
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 206 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
1134 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57488-530-9 (9781574885309)
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Norman Polmar | K. J. Moore
Cold War Submarines
The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001
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09/2011
Potomac Books Inc
€43.99
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Persons
Norman Polmar is an analyst and consultant specializing in the naval, aviation, and intelligence fields. He has been an adviser on naval issues to three U.S. senators, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and three secretaries of the U.S. Navy, as well as to the leadership of Australian, Chinese, and Israeli navies. Polmar is the author or coauthor or more than fifty books, including Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001 with coauthor K. J. Moore (Potomac, 2005) and The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (Potomac, 2004).