"Operation sunshine": the rhetoric of a cold war technological spectacle

• Published in: Rhetoric and Public Affairs
• Main Author: Griffin, Charles J. G.
• Other Authors: charlieg
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: USS Nautilus; Cold War; Domestic propaganda; Operation Sunshine; Eisenhower White House; Nautilus; North Pole; Pacific
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17044

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 failures of the U.S. V...