During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s navy was a dynamic foe of the West. Notably, the Soviet submarine force was a real challenger to the United States Navy and NATO. Soviet submarine designers ...
The first was the USS Thresher (SSN-593), the lead boat of a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines developed in the late 1950s. She sank during deep tests on April 10, 1963. Five years later ...
Set in a post-apocalyptic 1950s, The Fitzroy hotel - a derelict submarine beached just off Margate - is the last place for a traditional summer holiday following a catastrophic Event that wiped out ...
The British government engaged in complex negotiations with American presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson though the 1950s and 60s ... Britain's very first submarine-launched nuclear ...
The Avro Shackleton – a cousin of the iconic Lancaster bomber – was used to track Soviet submarines in UK waters, and to aid in search and rescue operations, from the 1950s to the early 1990s.