Summary: The Ethan Allen-class submarines, designed as successors to the George Washington class, were central to the U.S. Navy’s “41 for Freedom” ballistic missile fleet during the 1960s. Built to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Memorandum, photograph, and booklet relating to the launching of Polaris, the United States Navy's first submarine-launched ballistic missile.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: For Britain, it was an almost unbelievable coup—“the bargain of the century,” as one observer called it. Polaris was a far more effective weapons system that ...

Six miles east of Cape Canaveral one night last week, the 16,100-ton converted merchant ship Observation Island steamed an easterly course in gently rolling seas. The seagoing missile laboratory, ...

Well, I suppose that's good to hear. It means that if North Korea wanted to attack us with their subs then they'd literally have to get the sub's nose on the beach to hit their target. That would also ...