A biweekly podcast about how submarines came into being and evolved into the hyper-quiet weapon they are today.
The Soviets continued to surprise the world with submarines that boggled the mind. But submarines couldn’t save the Bolshevik fantasy.
The Soviets continued to surprise the world with submarines that boggled the mind. But submarines couldn’t save the Bolshevik fantasy.
It’s the 1970s and early 1980s and the Soviets are giving NATO a run for their money.
It’s the 1960s. While the Soviets were upping their submarine game, the Americans maxed out their own subs’ espionage potential.
On October 27, 1962, amid the Cuban Missile Crisis, one submarine almost started Armageddon.
While the USSR flushed the seas with submarines, in the USA one Hyman G. Rickover pushed the US Navy into nuclear submarines and set up USS...
From the ashes of World War II rose the two new big boys on the block: the USSR and the United States. And they both knew that submarines...
There are a couple of men whose name remain mostly unsung, but who were instrumental in preventing nuclear Armageddon during the Cold War. One of...
As early as 1955, the Soviets launched the world’s first Sea Launched Ballistic Missile, besting the USA and so introducing the world’s...
One man was instrumental in fomenting a revolution in the US Navy. What if you installed a nuclear reactor on a sub?, he thought.
When we think of submarines, we’re likely to conjure in our mind photos and videos of German U-boats sinking British transports in the...
Most submarine development action in the 1870-1900 period took place on the European continent. But though the British admiralty wasn’t interested in...
Every new development depends on geniuses. One of those was Narcis Monturiol.The American Civil War had ended and the US government was demobilizing...