The first submarine to travel under the North Pole was the USS Nautilus, a nuclear-powered sub from the United States. In ...

This historic film documents the remarkable polar voyage of the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, as ...

It was the first ship to visit the North Pole and participated in the Cuban missile crisis blockade. Nautilus is now an exhibit at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. On January 17, ...

Clad in a navy blue cap reading “USS Nautilus,” one of the original crewmen of the world’s first nuclear powered submarine stood at the podium at Rowland Freedom Center in Vacaville on Saturday ...

USS Nautilus Submarine Sets the Nuclear Standard – In the late 1940s, then U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover was frustrated with the state of affairs in undersea warfare. Submarines in those days ...

GROTON, Conn. | If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be a submariner and dive deep below the ocean surface you can do just that at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton. There you can see ...

GROTON, Conn. (WTNH) — The Submarine Force Museum hosted a ceremony Monday to observe 70 years of the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. The submarine traveled more than ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1630, John Billington, one of the first pilgrims to land in America, was hanged for murder -- the first European criminal executed in the American colonies ...

Q. Who built the nuclear reactor for the first atomic submarine, Nautilus? A. Chattanooga's Combustion Engineering built the reactor for Nautilus, which became active in 1955. Combustion, with more ...

Here’s What to Remember: In 1958, the United States government pushed to have a nuclear-powered submarine reach the North Pole, both as a response to the Sputnik satellite launch and to... Here’s What ...