Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines

Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines by Polmar, Norman. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781574885941.

Submarines had a vital, if often underappreciated, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened missile attacks on their adversarys homeland, providing in many respects the most survivable nuclear deterrent of the Cold War. In Cold War Submarines, Norman Polmar and K. J. Moore provide the definitive history of the design and construction of these undersea fleets.