Heavily illustrated with photos, line drawings, and diagrams, this New York Times bestseller takes readers on a fascinating look inside the world of a nuclear submarine. nOnly the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Mr. Clancy's magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public.

Now, every civilian can enter this top secret world...the weapons, the procedures, the people themselves...the startling facts behind the fiction that made Tom Clancy a #1 bestselling author.