Synopsis
Ultimately, World War II was the first war won by technology, but within only a few weeks after the war began the U.S. Navy realized its torpedo program was a failure. This book tells the dramatic story of how Navy planners threw aside the careful procedures of peacetime science & initiated radical research : gathering together America s best scientists & engineers in huge research centers & giving them freedom of experimentation to create sophisticated weaponry with a single goal -- winning the war. Gannon conducted hundreds of interviews which reveal that this research was, for many, the most exciting period of their lives. Illustrations.
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About the Author
Robert Gannon is Associate Professor of English at Penn State University. His articles have appeared in Popular Science, Reader's Digest, Science Digest, Science and Mechanics, Audubon, Oceans, and many other popular and specialized publications.
Review
“The U.S. Navy's failure to provide its submarines with effective torpedoes was one of the great near disasters of the Second World War. Gannon offers us a finely crafted, thoroughly informative study of the failure and the successful technical effort to develop winning weapons for the fleet.”
—Harvey M. Sapolsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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