In 1946, one year after the unleashing of nuclear forces for destruction at Hiroshima, a Navy group, headed by then Captain, now Vice Admiral H.G. Rickover, was sent to Oak Ridge for a year’s ...

Admiral Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986) is famous for whipping into shape the U.S. nuclear submarine fleet and the nuclear industry after it. His driving and domineering attitude was often unpopular ...

A trained nuclear engineer, Carter worked under famed Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the Navy's nuclear program, on the "Sea Wolf," an atomic submarine. He also studied nuclear physics at ...