The U.S. nuclear navy, created by Admiral Hyman Rickover, was an astonishing bureaucratic and cultural revolution in modern military history. Rickover’s belief in superior engineering, continuous ...

Strike three! The Navy has struck out yet again. This past week, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced that the Navy was cancelling its latest major surface warship initiative, the Constellation ...

GROTON, Conn. (WLS) -- A new nuclear submarine was commissioned Saturday in honor of a legendary Naval officer and Chicago native. The Navy added the USS Rickover to its fleet, named after Admiral ...

This month, a welder at a Virginia shipyard etched the keel plate of the USS Barb, the ceremonial birthing of a new submarine. The Virginia-class fast attack submarine joins hundreds of Navy subs ...

America’s Sagebrush Navy explores the creation of the Nuclear Navy in the desert of Idaho. In the late 1940’s, Captain Hyman G. Rickover oversaw the creation of three prototype reactors in Idaho.

HFIR reactor operators working from a motorized bridge use hand tools that are 30 feet long to work on the reactor core submerged in a pool 17 feet deep. Veterans of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion ...

America’s Sagebrush Navy explores the creation of the Nuclear Navy in the desert of Idaho. In the late 1940’s, Captain Hyman G. Rickover oversaw the creation of three prototype reactors in Idaho.