COLD WARRIORS: The Navy's Engineering and Diving Support Unit

This is the story of a technological war. There was no ambiguity behind the phrase “mutually assured destruction”-nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them had become a reality. The atomic bomb brought Japan to the USS Missouri for the formal surrender on September 2, 1945; a date that marked the end of World War Two. But this date also signaled the beginning of the Cold War as the Soviet Union emerged from the shadows. There was no “shot heard ‘round the world”; no Fort Sumter; no Pear...