“Operation Sunshine”: The Rhetoric of a Cold War Technological Spectacle

Abstract This essay examines the role of the USS Nautilus (SSN 571), the world's first atomic powered submarine, as an agency for advancing the Cold War objectives of the Eisenhower White House in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's successful launches of Sputniks 1 and 2 and the early fai...

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Published in:Rhetoric and Public Affairs
Main Author: Griffin, Charles J. G.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Michigan State University Press 2013
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.3.0521
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