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The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew's harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Bristling with newly classified, never-before-published information, The Ice Diaries takes listeners on a dangerous journey beneath the vast, unexplored Arctic ice cap during the height of the Cold War.

"Top Secret" mystery missions, many without other ships in support, were becoming uncomfortably familiar for the crew of the USS Nashville CL43. It started like a Hollywood thriller, secretly transporting from England $25 million in British gold bullion, delivered to the ship in unguarded bread trucks, a pre-war "Neutrality Patrol" that was really an unofficial hostile search for the far bigger and more powerful German battleship Prinz Eugen, and sneaking through the Panama Canal at night with the ship’s name and hull number covered for secrecy.

USS Nautilus SSN-571 Submarine Briefing is a historical lecture about the origins, design, construction, and achievements of the world's first nuclear submarine. It begins with a detailed account of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover's life and determination to build a nuclear submarine in the US Navy. In this briefing, the history of the USS Nautilus SSN-571 is concisely reviewed and accomplishments highlighted. The Nautilus changed naval warfare. Here is how it happened.

The members of G. O. R. E. Sector can never catch a break. Following the disappearance of numerous vessels, Thomas Rodney leads the members of Raptor Pack to Mauto, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Utilizing the inventions of Dr. Howard Tate, they set out to determine the cause. Before long, the ugly truth reveals itself. A menacing threat has awakened, and it is unlike anything they have yet faced. Multi-limbed, armored, and capable of great bursts of speed, the latest of mutations seeks to rule the sea and eradicate anything that dares challenge it.

Alex and Jules have been enlisted by Napoleon to head an expedition to find the 3rd Symbol of the Golden Seal before a mad man reaches it. The seal has mystical powers which could give a man the power to rule the world! Little did they realize once they had committed themselves to the mission that it would lead to them joining the mad man as he plunges them and a mighty ship into the depths of the Atlantic, seeking a mysterious entrance to the very interior of the Earth itself. An exciting adventure during the Victorian times on an alternate Earth where magic and science co-exist.

On July 16, 1945, at 05:25 AM, just half-an-hour prior to sunrise, the Second Sun rose in New Mexico’s night sky with the Trinity test which brilliantly lit up the dark sky with light so bright that it forced even a blind girl to literally sit-up from sleep and notice the resulting flash even 100 miles away from the Alamogordo test site. The first nuclear age, thus, witnessed the detonation & testing of nuclear weapons on land, below surface, under water as well as in space; as humanity was still coming to grips with the immense power of the atom which is almost 100 million times more ...

On July 16, 1945, the 'Trinity' Test effectively brought about the transformation of the ‘American Prometheus’ into the ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ along with an expedited dawn of the nuclear age as the Laws of Physics were successfully reappraised by the Homo Sapiens. However, the initial premise and the hopeful promise of the creation of a ‘Super Weapon’ to end all wars has remained more or less a chimera for humanity even after 7+ decades of its genesis. The dawn of the nuclear age; following Trinity and the subsequent atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki; unleashed the Cold War-...