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The world had been living under the threat of nuclear war for the better part of a decade when President Dwight D. Eisenhower had an idea: Let’s give atomic power a makeover. Ike came up with Atoms ...

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Maritime history dates back to the very dawn of humanity, with some scientific circles suggesting we've been sailing the high seas since the late part of the Early Pleistocene, roughly 900,000 years ...

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QUINCY — If you don’t know your way around the decks of the USS Salem, you might never run into John Connor. The retired marine's office is a tiny room that, more than half a century ago, was fit for ...

People in Key West welcome the Sunward cruise ship in September 1970. U.S. Navy photo Monroe County Public Library Key West has been a featured destination for the cruise industry for so many years ...

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Does the name Los Barcos ring a bell? Or Las Carabelas? You most likely know them as the Columbus fleet. The ships negotiated choppy waters for decades in Corpus Christi before the last remaining one, ...

In the November 2003 issue, Popular Mechanics got a look at a new breed of warship. Born from the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, the new Littoral Combat Ship was designed to combat international ...

While Greg Trauthwein never assigns me column subjects, each time the Great Ships issue comes around I go with the theme. However, I try to take a view askew on that subject and have found that these ...