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...cause of all this excitement was the sensational success of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, which cruised 69,138 miles, more than half of them submerged, on a single charge of uranium fuel. She never had a breakdown, and her performance forced the Navy's heavy thinkers to rewrite the textbooks of naval warfare...
...such Verne classics as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Secret of the Island is 1) the vigor and quality of Verne's talent, 2) the Homeric nature of his heroes, villains, and imagined perils. This is epitomized in Captain Nemo, dauntless commander of the submarine Nautilus...
...criticism, he nominated onetime (1949-53) Truman Assistant Navy Secretary John F. Floberg, 41, a political independent who has been practicing law in Washington since leaving government. Jack Floberg has one sound credential for AEC service: he played an active role in pushing the building of the atomic submarine Nautilus...
General Dynamics built the first atomic submarines, Nautilus and Seawolf, produced the Air Force's F-IO2A all-weather interceptor and the B58 Hustler supersonic bomber. It is now developing the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile as well as commercial uses of atomic energy, one of Hopkins' greatest enthusiasms...
ATOMIC SUBMARINE tanker is on the drawing boards of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy-Industries Ltd. Nuclear-powered undersea craft will do 22 knots, carry 30,000 tons of oil, measure 540 ft. by 69 ft., to dwarf the first U.S. atom sub Nautilus. Snorkel craft will be able to stay submerged for a month straight, safe from turbulent storms. Cost: about twice as much as conventional tanker of same size...