January 21 1954 – USS Nautilus, the First Nuclear-Powered Submarine, is Christened in Connecticut

January 21 1954 – USS Nautilus, the First Nuclear-Powered Submarine, is Christened in Connecticut5 (100%) 1 vote In the midst of a constant quest for technological superiority on the battlefield of the Cold War, the United States took a large leap forward with the christening of the USS Nautilus on January 21, 1954. By developing a nuclear-powered submarine, the US Navy gained mission capabilities their Soviet counterparts would spend four years scrambling to catch up with. The process toward developing a nuclear-powered vessel began at the end of 1947. The culmination of the Manhattan Project — two atomic bombs dropped on Japan to end World War II — gave the […]