Bits-and-Pieces

In 1939, the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory began exploring the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine. By 1955, the USS Nautilus was at sea. Soon after, the USSR introduced the commercial cargo ship Lenin, followed by the U.S. launching the Savannah in 1959.
With a few exceptions – Germany’s NS Otto Hahn (1964) and Japan’s NS Mutsu (1969) – the world went to nuclear powered war ships. Russia, however, occupied a unique middle ground with a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers.

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