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Rickover : father of the nuclear Navy /

"Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program and revived...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allen, Thomas B.
Otros Autores: Polmar, Norman
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Military profiles.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Victory at sea
  • Father's occupation: tailor
  • The Navy and the atom
  • Building the Nautilus
  • Admiral of the hill
  • The Rickover navy
  • Danger: radiation hazard
  • Rickover the man
  • Getting rid of Rickover.