A History Of Submarines

With the post-Cold War 'Peace Dividend', government investment in submarines fell off a cliff.

This is the last episode of this linear basic history about submarines. I hope you enjoyed listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it. 

The Soviets continued to surprise the world with submarines that boggled the mind. But submarines couldn't save the Bolshevik fantasy.

Bonus: almost an hour of video footage onboard a Typhoon SSBN on Youtube!

It's the 1970s and early 1980s and the Soviets are giving NATO a run for their money. 

It's the 1960s. While the Soviets were upping their submarine game, the Americans maxed out their own subs' espionage potential.

On October 27, 1962, amid the Cuban Missile Crisis, one submarine almost started Armageddon.

While the USSR flushed the seas with incredible numbers of submarines, in the US one Hyman G. Rickover pushed the navy into going nuclear and set up USS Nautilus to become the first submarine to traverse the North Pole submerged. Meanwhile, the Soviets had their own breakthroughs - ICBMs, SSBNs, SLBMs and, of course, Sputnik. But opposite that the Americans set up SOSUS, a revolution by itself.

For more in Hyman G. Rickover, see Hyman G. Rickover, Father of the US nuclear navy (ahistoryofsubmarines.com).

For more on Sergei Korolev, see Sergei Korolev, Rocket Man (ahistoryofsubmarines.com).

From the ashes of World War II rose the two new big boys on the block: the USSR and the United States. And they both knew that submarines would play a pivotal role in any World War III...

Yes, submarines can help end wars - when used properly. No, not you, Dönitz! Plus, a bone-chilling story.

The incredible war stories of Dudley Morton and Robert O'Kane exemplified how much the US submarine fleet in the Pacific changed in war.

While things took a turn for the worse for Karl Dönitz and his U-boats in the Atlantic, in the Pacific the US Silent Service was now lead by one Charles Lockwood, who desired to choke Japan into submission.