Rickover and the Nuclear Navy: The Discipline of Technology

No book will ever come closer than this to providing an inside overview of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover’s nuclear propulsion program. The author, an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) historian assigned to the admiral’s office, spent years observing the project and its controversial leader in action, and the insights he provides here reflect both his familiarity with the subject and his ability to remain an objective observer.

From 1974 to the day Rickover retired in 1982, Francis Duncan had free a...