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Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines - Where to Watch and Stream - TV Guide. 2002. 1 hr 0 mins. Documentary. NR. Watchlist. A documentary history of the development and...
- Roy Scheider
In the 1950s, faced with the grim calculus of "mutually assured destruction", the U.S. Navy began trying to develop a submarine-based nuclear deterrent to safeguard the USA. Features interviews with weapons designers and test pilots, submarine captains and crew members, and stunning footage specifically declassified for the film.
Oct 10, 2002 · This special edition DVD also includes the original 50-minute long TV program featuring historian David Stumpf and numerous Cold War veterans including submarine commanders William Gunn and Robert Owens.
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- Digital Sound, Full Screen, Color, NTSC
- Scheider, Roy, Spark, Nick T.
- 50 minutes
Between 1959 and 1964, a total of five boats were used to undertake the first submarine-based nuclear deterrent patrols by the United States. Regulus submarines were used for this task until 1964, when sufficient ballistic missile submarines carrying the Polaris ballistic missile became available.
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Dec 2, 2008 · This is a story based on factual historical footage and first-person interviews with the Navy pilots and submarine officers who trained with the Regulus 1 the first nuclear equipped cruise missile in the US inventory.
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Regulus not only provided the first nuclear strategic deterrence force for the United States Navy during the first years of the Cold War and especially during the Cuban Missile Crisis, preceding the Polaris missiles, Poseidon missiles, and Trident missiles that followed, but it was also the forerunner of the Tomahawk cruise missile.
