Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship (平装) 0425183009

在线阅读本书 The best-selling novelist exposes the inner workings of thenuclear submarine, the core of America's nuclear arsenal, usingpreviously unrevealed diagrams and photographs along with formerlytop-secret information.500,000 first printing. $200,000ad/promo.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition. Never before seen by the general public: a rare glimpse inside a LosAngeles-class (SSN-688) nuclear submarine ... with Tom Clancy asyour guide. Only the author ofThe Hunt for RedOctobercould capture thereality of lifeaboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Mr. Clancy's magnitude couldobtainsecurity clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs neverbefore availableto the public. Now, for the first time, every civilian can enter this top secret worldand experience thedrama and excitement of this stunning technological achievement.... theweapons, theprocedures, the people themselves... the startling facts behind thefiction that made TomClancy a #1 bestseller.

Submarine includes:

Exclusive photographs, illustration, and diagramsMock war scenarios and weapons launch proceduresAn inside look at life on board, from captain to crew, from trainingexercises tooperationsThe fascinating history and evolution of submarinesPLUS: Tom Clancy's controversial views on submariner tactics andtrainingmethods.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition. Best-selling author Clancy's first nonfiction book is a thorough, highly detailed examination of the technology employed by U.S. nuclear attack submarines. After months of lobbying, Clancy was granted security clearance by the navy to board and photograph the nuclear powered USS Miami. Every inch of this state-of-the-art vessel is covered, from the hull, control room, and engine room nuclear reactors to the communications/electronic warfare space and torpedo bays. Clancy shows readers how all the components are made and how they work. Also included is the fascinating history and evolution of submarines and an inside look at life on board, from captain to crew. Much of the information here has only recently been declassified, and Clancy's insightful views on the future of this type of warship in the post-Cold War era are interesting as well. Recommended. - Eric C. Shoaf, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence, R.I. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition. Up periscope! with America's favorite armchairtechnowarrior, who here, with the cooperation of the Navy, takesreaders deeper than they've ever gone inside a nuclear submarine.Clancy's fascination with underseas combat dates back at least asfar as his debut novel, the sub-set The Hunt for Red October, andyou can sense his pride and excitement as--after a brief butwell-informed survey of the history of submarines and of asubmariner's training- -he takes us aboard the USS Miami, anImproved Los Angeles-class boat berthed at the US Submarine Basein Groton, Connecticut. Those who share Clancy's almost eroticadmiration for technology won't be disappointed by the tour: ``Itis easy to tell that the Miami is equipped with the Mk 32 VLSsystem, since it is sitting level in the water,'' he tells us atonce, adding that the ``33-foot- diameter hull is...approximately3 inches thick and composed of HNY-80 high tensile steel.'' Butfans of human-interest also will find that's engaging here, asthe author notes, for example, that life aboard the Miami is akinto ``a combination of living in an oversized motor home andsummer camp,'' with no privacy but much esprit de corps, wheresleep deprivation is a major problem but dining is ``apleasure,'' except for the preponderance of three- bean salad andthe horrid-tasting orange ``bug juice''--which however, makes``an excellent scouring powder for cleaning floors and heads.''Clancy follows up his tour of the Miami with a briefer one of aBritish sub; a rundown of

出版社	Berkley
作者	Tom Clancy