Cold War Submarines: The Design And Construction Of U.S. And Soviet Subarines - Couverture souple

Polmar, Norman; Moore, K. J.

 
9781574885309: Cold War Submarines: The Design And Construction Of U.S. And Soviet Subarines
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ISBN 10 : 1574885308 ISBN 13 : 9781574885309
Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2005

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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).

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Éditeur
Potomac Books Inc
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1574885308
ISBN 13 
9781574885309
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
432
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1574885944 ISBN 13 :  9781574885941
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