The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation : Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub /
March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call-even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN-the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets-has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of M. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780700622511 |