It was impossibly expensive, extraordinarily dangerous, and completely unarmed. The U.S. Navy’s state-of-the-art NR-1 nuclear powered submersible was the Cold War’s most closely guarded - and revolutionary - secret. In 1966, after the U.S. almost lost a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Spain, Admiral Hyman Rickover - father of the nuclear navy - outmaneuvered Congress and steamed full speed ahead on his brainchild: a spy mission and deep ocean recovery submarine with a miniature nuclear reac...

Operating alone and unarmed on the bottom of the sea, the U.S. Navy's smallest nuclear-powered submarine is one of its biggest weapons. Tied up at a pier, the boat with the bright orange sail looks absolutely minuscule, innocent and out of place beside its big brothers, the fleet's huge missile-carrying and attack submarines, but it can dive deeper, stay down for a month, and accomplish missions far beyond the capabilities of any of them. The ship has been cloaked in mystery. It wasn't com...

'Hurricane Season 2017' is an account of the destruction, death, and the devastating aftermath of the 2017 Category 5 Hurricanes Irma and Maria on the Caribbean's Leeward Islands, Vieques, and Puerto Rico. It relates the personal experiences of two retires living on the island of Vieques set against the backdrop of contemporary news reports that describe the events before, during, and after the violent storms struck the Islands. It is a multi-media eBook that combines original text, photog...