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050 00 $aV63.C73$bA3 2001
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100 1 $aCraven, John P.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82069828
245 14 $aThe silent war :$bthe Cold War battle beneath the sea /$cJohn Piña Craven.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c2001.
263 $a0104
300 $a304 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"John P. Craven was a key figure in the Cold War beneath the sea.
520 8 $aAs chief scientist of the Navy's Special Projects Office, which supervised the Polaris missile system, then later as head of the Deep Submergence Systems Project (DSSP) and the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle program (DSRV), both of which engaged in a variety of clandestine undersea projects, he was intimately involved with planning and executing America's submarine-based nuclear deterrence and submarine-based espionage activities during the height of the Cold War.
520 8 $aCraven was considered so important by the Soviets that they assigned a full-time KGB agent to spy on him.".
520 8 $a"Some of Craven's highly classified activities have been mentioned in such books as Blind Man's Bluff, but now he gives us his own insights into the deadly cat-and-mouse game that U.S. and Soviet forces played deep in the world's oceans. Craven tells riveting stories about the most treacherous years of the Cold War.
520 8 $aIn 1956 Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine and the backbone of the Polaris ballistic missile system, was only days or even hours from sinking due to structural damage of unknown origin. Craven led a team of experts to diagnose the structural flaw that could have sent the sub to the bottom of the ocean, taking the Navy's missile program with it.".
520 8 $a"Craven offers insight into the rivalry between the advocates of deterrence (with whom he sided) and those military men and scientists, such as Edward Teller, who believed that the United States had to prepare to fight and win a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union.
520 8 $aHe describes the argument that raged in the Navy over the reasons for the tragic loss of the submarine Thresher, and tells the astonishing story of the hunt for the rogue Soviet sub that became the model for The Hunt for Red October - including the amazing discovery the Navy made when it eventually found the sunken sub.".
520 8 $a"A compelling tale of intrigue, both within our own government and between the U.S. and Soviet navies, The Silent War is an enthralling insider's account of how the submarine service kept the peace during the dangerous days of the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aCraven, John P.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82069828
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy$xCivilian employees$vBiography.
650 0 $aOcean engineering$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aNuclear submarines$zUnited States.
650 0 $aFleet ballistic missile weapons systems$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDeterrence (Strategy)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037301
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy$xSubmarine forces.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141017
650 0 $aMilitary intelligence$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101828
650 0 $aEspionage, American$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009125107
650 0 $aCold War.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005637
650 0 $aLaw of the sea.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97008889
852 00 $bleh$hV63.C73$iA3 2001