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Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers; How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation

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Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers; How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation

de Miller, Jerry

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Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xiii, [3], 296 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Gerald Edward "Jerry" Miller (July 1, 1919 - November 6, 2014) was a vice admiral in the United States Navy. He was a commander of the United States Sixth Fleet (from October 1971 - June 1973). He graduated in 1942 from the United States Naval Academy. With the Cold War turning frigid in the late 1950s, Jerry was promoted to Captain, the first in his class to make that rank, and reported to the Pentagon. Assigned to the Atomic Operations Division, Captain Miller had the awesome responsibility of helping organize nuclear war plans. He became an expert in nuclear weaponry and and its employment as a naval weapon delivered by naval aircraft. He commanded USS Wrangell and USS Franklin Roosevelt, and in 1968, commanded Carrier Division Three in Vietnam. Promoted to Vice Admiral in 1970, Jerry commanded the Second and Sixth Fleets, before retiring from active duty in 1974. Admiral Miller retired with flight experience in more than 60 types of aircraft during World War II, Korea and Vietnam. The U.S. Navy entered World War II with seven aircraft carriers and finished the war with nearly one hundred. However, with the advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 and its impact on strategic thinking, the future of naval aviation looked bleak. Rapid demobilization after the war eliminated many carriers, and most policy makers believed that future wars would be fought with nuclear weapons delivered by land-based aircraft, a method patented by the new U.S. Air Force. During the so-called "Revolt of the Admirals," respected naval leaders lobbied for the Navy's role in the new era. Arthur Radford and Arleigh Burke, who eventually became the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the chief of naval operations respectively, as well as Chief of Naval Operations Louis E. Denfeld risked their careers to speak out in support of enabling aircraft carriers to transport, target, and deliver nuclear weapons. In Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers, Jerry Miller traces this struggle, which also involved serious conflicts with the Air Force and ultimately led to innovations in the design and engineering of carriers and aircraft. Miller demonstrates the success of the Navy's nuclear vision, which saved the aircraft carrier from extinction, and argues that the Navy's hard-won nuclear capability played a significant role in ending the Cold War. In the final chapter, he reflects on this history and its participants, and he assesses the future of both the aircraft carrier and nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century.

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Formerly commander of the U.S. Second Fleet and NATO striking forces in the Atlantic as well as the U.S. Sixth Fleet and NATO striking forces in the Mediterranean, Jerry Miller retired from the U.S. Navy in 1974. He spent most of his thirty-eight-year career as a fixed-wing pilot, seeing surface combat in a cruiser in the Pacific during World War II, becoming a fighter pilot and a commander of a fighter squadron during the Korean War, and commanding a carrier division during the Vietnam War. Since his retirement from active duty, Miller has used his extensive Navy experience in nuclear weapons targeting and delivery to serve as a national security consultant on arms control.

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Ground Zero Books US (US)
Inventario del vendedor #
83973
Título
Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers; How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation
Autor
Miller, Jerry
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Edición
First Printing [Stated]
ISBN 10
1560989440
ISBN 13
9781560989448
Editorial
Smithsonian Institution Press
Lugar de publicación
Washington DC
Fecha de publicación
2001
Palabras clave
Nuclear Weapons, Cold War, Naval Operations, Aircraft Carriers, Frederish Ashworth, Arleigh Burke, Arthur Radford, Louis Denfeld, Blandy, William Parsons, Deak Parsons, United States Navy

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