Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001

Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, 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 adversary’s homeland, providing in many respects the most survivable nuclear deterrent of the Cold War. For both East and West, the modern submarine originated in German U-boat designs obtained at the end of World War II. Although enjoying a similar technology base, by the 1990s the superpowers had created submarine fleets of radically different designs and capabilities. Written in collaboration with the former Soviet submarine design bureaus, Norman Polmar and K. J. Moore authoritatively demonstrate in this landmark study how differing submarine missions, antisubmarine priorities, levels of technical competence, and approaches to submarine design organizations and management caused the divergence.

• The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster
• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
• U.S. Submarines Since 1945, Revised Edition: An Illustrated Design History
• World Submarines: Covert Shores Recognition Guide
• Astute Class Nuclear Submarine Owners' Workshop Manual: 2010 to date - Insights into the design, construction and operation of the most advanced attack submarine ever operated by the Royal Navy
• The US Navy's Fast Attack Submarines, Vol.1: Los Angeles Class 688
• Soviet Cruise Missile Submarines of the Cold War (New Vanguard)
• Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
• Admiral Gorshkov: The Man Who Challenged the U.S. Navy (Blue & Gold)
• Concepts in Submarine Design (Cambridge Ocean Technology Series)