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The American Jew Who Created the Nuclear Submarine
(Times of Israel) Rich Tenorio - Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power, by Marc Wortman, tells the incredible life story of the father of America's nuclear navy. Rickover was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in 1899 in Poland and arrived in the U.S. at age 6. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Rickover served aboard multiple vessels during World War II. After the war, he worked to develop a nuclear-powered submarine at the Manhattan Project site of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After five years he had figured out a way to develop a nuclear-powered reactor, leading to the launch of the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, in 1954. His career began during the administration of Woodrow Wilson and lasted into the Reagan years when he was 81, making him the longest-serving active-duty officer in American military history.