The Cold War in the Arctic

For an entire generation of Americans, the Cold War is a history lesson rather than personal memory. Basement fallout shelters were standard...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower immediately came under public criticism for failing to grasp the psychological significance of the space race...

Built at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, Nautilus was launched January 21, 1954, after years of lobbying by Admiral Hyma...

As daring as it sounds, Commander Anderson's explorations were not unique, nor was the USS Nautilus the first submarine of that name to...

As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, the Arctic became increasingly militarized. The shortest distance for bombers and missiles between t...

In 1958 the Nautilus was on the cutting edge of Arctic Ocean exploration. Despite decades of surface exploration, the ocean underneath the ...

Arctic explorers both on and under the ice had long known that magnetic and gyroscopic compasses performed erratically or not at all near th...