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| | "Nuclear Navy," Feature Article, January 2004 |
 | | ifty years ago this month, a nuclear submarine named the SSN 571 Nautilus was launched at the Electric Boat Co. on the Thames River in Groton, Conn. It was the world's most complicated machine. |
 | | A crowd of 20,000 shipyard workers, engineers, naval personnel, and dignitaries cheered as Mamie Eisenhower broke the ceremonial bottle of champagne over the hull on Jan. 21, 1954. |
 | | Rickover studied diesel electric submarines and even translated Admiral Hermann Bauer's treatise on submarine warfare, Das Unterseeboot, from German into English. |
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