Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At the Electric Boat's Groton yard, a nuclear-attack sub of the Skipjack class was well along in construction. Her reactor and control-room sections were nearly completed. By chopping that 250-ft vessel in half and inserting a 130-ft missile bay in her midriff, she could...
As an article of war, her men learned to hide her under water layers where sharp changes of temperature would foul enemy sonar; they practiced with the Navy's new, very low-frequency radio gear with which they could receive messages from 6,000 miles away without resurfacing. They...
The silence in the room when he was finished, remembers Raborn, "was like the silence after a talk by an evangelist. It was the silence before you heard the shuffle on the sawdust." Lockheed Vice President L. E. Root turned to his boss, Bob Gross, and whispered something, the sibilants...
At Electric Boat, three shifts worked around the clock, and the grim hulls bulged steadily into shape. All the while, their complicated, crowded quarters were worked over and improved. Because crews had to last out months at sea, there would be none of the stench of diesel fuel and battery...
When the time came for the real test last week, Polaris and her crew were ready. The SINS had the ship exactly on station. The control surfaces that could whip George Washington through the water like a startled eel now held it steady and motionless. On signal, the muzzle door...