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Almost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for
“spying” and intelligence collection. Since early in the
twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and
radar, the U.S. Navy and other government agencies and many other
navies have used increasingly specialized ships and submarines to
ferret out the secrets of other nations. The United States and the
Soviet Union/Russia have been the leaders in those efforts,
especially during the forty-five years of the Cold War. But, as
Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers reveal, so has China, which has
become a major maritime power in the twenty-first century, with
special interests in the South China Sea and with increasing
hostility toward the United States. Through extensive, meticulous
research and through the lens of such notorious spy ship events as
the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, the North Korean capture of
the USS Pueblo, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s
success in clandestinely salvaging part of a Soviet submarine with
the Hughes Glomar Explorer, Spy Ships is a fascinating and valuable
resource for understanding maritime intelligence collection and
what we have learned from it.
The closest we've ever come to the end of the worldDEFCON-2 is the
best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an
important contribution to the history of the Cold War. Beyond the
military and political facts of the crisis, Polmar and Gresham
sketch the personalities that created and coped with the crisis.
They also show us how close we came to the edge without becoming
sensationalistic.
--Larry Bond, bestselling author of Dangerous GroundSpy-satellite
and aerial-reconnaissance photos reveal that one of the United
States's bitterest enemies may be acquiring weapons of mass
destruction and the means to use them against the American
homeland. Administration officials refuse to accept intelligence
professionals' interpretation of these images and order an end to
spy missions over the offending nation. More than a month later,
after vicious infighting, the president orders the spy missions to
resume. The new photos reveal an array of ballistic missiles,
capable of carrying nuclear warheads and striking deep within U.S.
territory. It appears that the missiles will be fully operational
within one week.This is not a plot setup for a suspense novel; it
is the true story of the most terrifying moment in the 45-year Cold
War between the United States and the Soviet Union: the Cuban
Missile Crisis. DEFCON-2 tells this tale as it has never been told
before--from both sides, with the help of hundreds of recently
declassified U.S. and Soviet documents, as well as interviews with
numerous former spies, military figures, and government officials
who speak out here for the first time.
The world entered the atomic age in August 1945, when the B-29
Superfortress nicknamed Enola Gay flew some 1,500 miles from the
island of Tinian and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
The "Little Boy" bomb exploded with the force of 12.5 kilotons of
TNT, nearly destroying the city. Three days later, another B-29
dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The Japanese government, which
had been preparing a bloody defense against an invasion,
surrendered six days later. The aircraft was the primary artifact
in an exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum from 1995 to
1998. The original, controversial exhibit script was changed, and
the final exhibition attracted some 4 million visitors, testifying
to the enduring interest in the aircraft and its mission. This book
tells the story of the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 program, and the
combat operations of the B-29 type. After nearly two decades of
restoration, the Enola Gay will be one of the highlights of the
museum's new Udvar-Hazy Center, which is scheduled to open at
Dulles International Airport on December 15, 2003.
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.
Long a family-friendly tourist destination and educational mecca
for students, Washington, DC, is immediately recognizable for its
world-class museums and monuments riddled with symbolism.
Washington's other signature stamp-politics-attracts visitors of a
different kind. Power players from around the globe gather in the
nation's capital to make history. But that's not all there is to
the city. Part tour guide, part trivia book, Washington, DC's Most
Wanted (TM) shows you its ins and outs (and sometimes confusing
roundabouts). Included in the book's many chapters are top-ten
lists on homegrown artists, authors, and athletes; historic hotels
and bars known for their patrons' wheelings and dealings; local
hauntings and lore; and, of course, memorable scandals that erupted
within the originally diamond-shaped district. Native
Washingtonians, as many know, are few and far between, but even
they will find a treasure trove of entertaining facts inside these
pages.
A must-read for submarine buffs! On the morning of April 10, 1963,
the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New
England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand
feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem . . .
have positive angle . . . attempting to blow . . . . Then came the
sounds of air under pressure and a garbled message: . . . test
depth . . . Last came the eerie sounds that experienced navy men
knew from World War II: the sounds of a submarine breaking up and
compartments collapsing. When she first went to sea in April of
1961, the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher was the most advanced
submarine at sea, built specifically to hunt and kill Soviet
submarines. In The Death of the USS Thresher, renowned naval and
intelligence consultant Norman Polmar recounts the dramatic
circumstances surrounding her implosion, which killed all 129 men
on board, in history's first loss of a nuclear submarine.
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