Britain's supercarrier HMS Prince of Wales has become the first surface ship to be equipped with a state-of-the-art atomic clock as it departs for the Exercise Cold Response 2022 NATO joint exercises ...
Key Points - The USS United States (CVA-58) was a post-WWII "supercarrier" designed to be a sea-based platform for heavy, nuclear-armed bombers, giving the Navy a key role in strategic deterrence.
In the 1960s, the United States launched a gleaming white ship powered not by oil, but by a nuclear reactor. It was meant to be a floating symbol of peace and technological triumph. Instead, it became ...
The Navy has awarded a small New York firm a $20 million contract to develop a compact, next-generation mercury ion atomic clock, the Pentagon announced recently. Frequency Electronics Inc., of ...
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - Survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, have mixed feelings about the recent interest in the battleship Yamato, another symbol of World War II, which was built ...
In the mid-1950s, Barney Landry flew an Air Force jet through atomic bomb and hydrogen explosion clouds to collect radiation samples. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he designed ship engines ...