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To Swim Like a Fish: Touring a Submarine | |
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A Tour Before Diving | |
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Sleek, Black, and Dangerous in the Water | |
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Down Ladder--Entering Feet First | |
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The Reactor Is Critical | |
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Visiting the Torpedo Room | |
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Sounding Out the Sonar and Control Rooms | |
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Meeting the (Annoyingly Youthful) Captain | |
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This Mission Is Classified | |
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A Steamy Time in the Engineroom | |
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The Scream of the Turbine Generator | |
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A Sub's Transmission: The Reduction Gear | |
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Finishing the Tour | |
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Meandering to Maneuvering | |
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Moving Forward | |
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View from the Bridge | |
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Getting Underway | |
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Taking Her Out | |
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Flankin' It | |
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Rig for Dive | |
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Take Her Down | |
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I Have the Bubble | |
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To Test Depth | |
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Buy Your Own Submarine | |
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Keep Water Out of the People Tank | |
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High Yield Strength and Toughness | |
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Why They Are All Shaped Like Cigars | |
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Withstanding the Pressure of the Ocean's Depths | |
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All That Water Is Heavy | |
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The Deeper You Go | |
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The Legend of a Sub, Test Depth, and Duct Tape | |
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The Pressure Hull | |
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Chicken Switches | |
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The Ballast Tanks | |
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Trimming the Ship | |
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Hard Tanks and Others | |
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Uses of the Hovering System | |
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Emergency Blow: In Case of Flooding | |
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The Sail, a.k.a. the Conning Tower | |
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The Periscopes | |
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Radar and Radio Masts | |
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Origin of the Snorkel | |
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Sternplanes and Bowplanes | |
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On the Bridge | |
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Emergencies: Part One | |
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What Could Possibly Happen? | |
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You Find a Leak; Flooding Finds You | |
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How to Conduct an Emergency Main Ballast Tank Blow (EMBT Blow) | |
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Tragedy of the Greeneville | |
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Fire Aboard Ship | |
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Dealing with Smoke | |
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Emergencies: Part Two | |
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Nuclear Reactor Accident | |
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Other Types of Nuclear Accidents | |
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Russian Accidents | |
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Protecting a Nuclear Reactor | |
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Steam Leak | |
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Weapon Warhead/Weapon Fuel Accident | |
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Tragedy of the Kursk | |
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Control Emergency ("Jam Dive") | |
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Collision at Sea (Emergency Deep) | |
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Flooding: Loss of the Thresher | |
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Attempting to Blow | |
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Garbled Voices | |
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Procedure Flaws That Doomed the Thresher | |
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Safety Changes Made | |
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U.S. Submarine Force Inside Story of the Thresher | |
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Lessons Learned | |
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The Atomic Age | |
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Entering the Nuclear Age | |
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Fermi Was First | |
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Making Power | |
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Albacore | |
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To Move Swiftly Through the Deep | |
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USS Albacore, a Test Bed | |
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Nautilus: Admiral Rickover's Baby | |
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Rickover: Father of the Nuclear Navy | |
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Prototype Reactor Built | |
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The Admiral and I | |
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The Hard Part: Building It to Last | |
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Connecticut-Born | |
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First Test: Threat of Meltdown | |
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Psychodrama | |
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Christened by Mamie | |
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Early Problems | |
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Considered an Ugly Duckling | |
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Public Relations | |
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Launch of the USS Skipjack, 1956 | |
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Cruise Beneath the North Pole | |
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Future of Nuke Vessels Assured | |
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Nautilus Becomes Antiquated | |
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How Nuclear Subs Work | |
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Sensor Systems | |
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Forget Everything You've Seen in the Movies | |
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The Submariner's Edge: Passive Broadband Sonar | |
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God Said, "Let There Be Narrowband" | |
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The Narrowband Paradox | |
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An Example | |
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LOFAR | |
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On the Rocks: Under-Ice Sonar | |
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Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) | |
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Infrared (IR): Detecting Heat Radiation | |
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Visual: Up Periscope | |
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Secure Fathometer | |
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Future Sensors | |
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Radio and Communications Suite | |
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Weapons Systems | |
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Control Room Layout | |
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The Attack Center | |
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Torpedoes | |
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Cruise Missiles | |
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Future Weapons | |
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Firecontrol (or How I Put My Torpedo on the Target) | |
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Navigation, or "Where the Hell Are We?" | |
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Producing the Power | |
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E = mc[superscript 2] | |
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Nuclear Reactor | |
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Problems of Corrsion | |
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The Birth of Crud | |
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The Moderator: Slowing the Neutrons | |
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The Limiting Component | |
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The Control Rod | |
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It Keeps Going and Going and Going | |
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End-of-Life Cores | |
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Hot Standby | |
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This Ain't Hoops: The Cold Wet Layup | |
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Coolant Loops | |
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Natural Circulation | |
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Emergency Cooling | |
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The Danger of Safety | |
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The Coolant Loops | |
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Staying Stable | |
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Keeping Water from Boiling: the Pressurizer | |
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Producing the Power II | |
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Avoiding That Certain Glow: Shielding | |
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Nuclear Instruments | |
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Atmospheric Control--How to Breathe Underwater | |
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Ship Control | |
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Trim and Drain System | |
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Hovering | |
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Food and Cooking | |
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Toilets | |
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Blowing Sanitary | |
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Trash Disposal | |
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Operating a Nuclear Submarine | |
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Rules Written in Blood | |
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The Rigs | |
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Starting a Nuclear Reactor | |
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By-the-Book Normal Reactor Startup | |
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XO Does Not Mean Hugs and Kisses | |
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Prewatch Tour | |
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Eng Is His Name | |
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The Engineering Officer of the Watch | |
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Entering Maneuvering | |
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On Being Nominal | |
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Estimated Critical Position | |
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Phoning the Eng at Home | |
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Reviewing the Procedure | |
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Starting the Pumps | |
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First Wiggle of the Startup Rate Needle | |
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Heating Up the Core | |
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Shifting the Electric Plant | |
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Cracking Open the Throttles | |
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Getting Underway | |
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Checking the Bridge | |
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Enter the Captain | |
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Taking In All Lines | |
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Keeping an Eye on Inbound Shipping | |
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How to Tell Time Underwater | |
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Taking Her Down | |
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Coming to Periscope Depth | |
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Doing the Math | |
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Rising from the Well | |
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Night Vision | |
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Breaking and Clearing of the Scope | |
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Reacting to an Emergency | |
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Running Lights | |
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How Could This Miserable Situation Happen? | |
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Reacting to the Emergency | |
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Multitasking | |
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Reactor Scram, Snorkeling, and Fast Recovery Startup | |
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Reactor Scram | |
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"We Are Troubleshooting" | |
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A Tricky Maneuver | |
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"Start the Engineroom!" | |
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Return of the AC | |
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Sweet Talk from the Engineer | |
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A Day in the Life of a Modern Submarine and Her Crew | |
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At Sea | |
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In Port | |
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Staying Submerged for Months | |
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Shipboard Organization | |
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Submarine Careers | |
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Subs at War | |
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Nuclear "Fast Attack" | |
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Backbone of the Nuke Fleet | |
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Seawolf Class | |
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Virginia Class | |
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Submersibles | |
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Deep Quest | |
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Jacques Cousteau | |
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Submarine Missile Systems | |
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Fire Arrows | |
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Types of Fuel | |
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Newton's Law | |
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SLBMs: Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles | |
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Switching to a Solid Propellant | |
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The Polaris Takes a Bow | |
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The Poseidon Adventure | |
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Trident | |
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A Three-Stager | |
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Deployment of Ballistic Missiles and PALs | |
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Contingency 12 | |
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Antiship Missiles | |
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Tomahawk | |
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The History of Submarines | |
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Pre-Twentieth-Century Submarines | |
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Halley's Diving Bell | |
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First Attack Sub: The Turtle | |
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The CSS H. L. Hunley | |
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The CSS David: Semisubmersible Torpedo Launch | |
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Robert Whitehead Invents the "Automobile Torpedo" | |
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John P. Holland: Father of the Modern Submarine | |
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First Electric Motor | |
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Jules Verne's Version | |
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Early Twentieth-Century Submarines | |
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Simon Lake's Theory of Negative Buoyancy | |
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Steam on the Surface, Electricity Below | |
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The ABCs of British Subs | |
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The Great War | |
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So Much for Experts | |
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U Stands for Unterseebooten | |
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May 1915: Sinking of the Lusitania | |
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Rendezvous with a U-Boat | |
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One Torpedo Left | |
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A Violent Explosion | |
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How German U-boats Drew the United States into the War | |
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Development of the Depth Charge | |
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The War Comes to Us | |
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Between the Wars | |
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The United States Launches the S-boats, 1918 | |
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Sonar | |
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The Momsen Lung | |
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603,000 Tons and What Do You Get? | |
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A Force to Be Reckoned With | |
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French Take Lessons to Heart | |
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A New Class of Ship | |
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Cruiser Sub Specifications | |
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How to Aim the Guns | |
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A Varied Crew | |
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Two Years in the Building | |
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Many Problems | |
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Largest Sub in the World | |
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Surcouf in World War II | |
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Operation Catapult | |
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Finding a New Role | |
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Refitting | |
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Canal Duty | |
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Rescue of the Squalus | |
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Submarines of World War II | |
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Japanese Midget Subs at Pearl Harbor | |
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Midgets Deadly Down Under | |
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U-boats in the Atlantic | |
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Yank Subs Spread Thin | |
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Planes Can't Stop Them | |
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Sinking of the Laconia | |
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"Is This a Self-Service Station?" | |
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Subs Off the West Coast | |
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The Longest Torpedo | |
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Pestering the Island Hoppers | |
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Gato, Balao, and Tench Classes | |
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Suicide Subs | |
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The End of the War | |
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Appendixes | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |