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

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 adversary's 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.

NORMAN POLMAR is known worldwide as a defense analyst, prolific author, and consultant to members of Congres and senior civilian and uniformed officials in the Navy.

K. J. MOORE is the founder of the Cortana Corporation, a hight-technology applications firm concerned with submarine development. While on duty with the U.S. Navy, he served on board submarines in the positions of weapons officer, engineering officer, and operations officer. For the Navy and in private industry, he has held analytical assignments that involved the study of Soviet and Western submarines and submarine tactics.