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Praise for Silent Steel
"The magnitude of the tragedy of the USS Scorpion is matched only by the depth of the mystery surrounding her loss. Stephen Johnson has done a remarkable job of shining new light on this dark moment in U.S. submarine history."
—Sherry Sontag, coauthor of Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
"What happened to the USS Scorpion? The question has vexed submariners for almost four decades. Now, with meticulous research and incredible attention to detail, Stephen Johnson examines and dissects one of the most tragic and mysterious submarine accidents in U.S. Navy history."
—Douglas Waller, author of Big Red: Inside the Secret World of a Trident Nuclear Submarine
"Stephen Johnson has crafted a forensic masterpiece that leads the reader back through time to unravel the gnawing enigma of the tragic 1968 loss of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion. Sifting through a maze of conflicting theories, he meticulously lays out a tale of undersea detectives searching for conclusive evidence to one of the most baffling mysteries of the cruel sea."
—Rear Admiral Thomas Evans, author, analyst specializing in submarine history and operations, and former officer on the Scorpion
"The manuscript arrived with yesterday's afternoon mail. I finished reading it by nightfall. It's that good! Thoroughly researched, impeccably documented, with an appealing and literate style, Silent Steel should become essential reading for submarine enthusiasts and for anyone else who enjoys an engaging and informative yarn."
—A. J. Hill, author of Under Pressure: The Final Voyage of Submarine S-Five
Customer Reviews:
Good read.......2007-10-17
Things you didn't know, and the processes that happened before the disaster to make it a disaster
Poorly-written journalism, definitely not naval science.......2007-08-05
This book contains 241 pages of disconnected, repetitive prose, of which about 100, at best, are informative and useful in understanding the loss of Scorpion. Are there no editors at publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.?
Requiem at 12,000 Feet.......2007-07-23
Nearly four decades after the tragic and mysterious loss of the nuclear fast-attack Scorpion, it seems her 99-man crew is finally getting its due. At the time of the Scorpion's disappearance, the story was lost in the tumultuous 1968, with the assassinations of both Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and a media entranced with a rising Viet Nam body count, the Scorpion quickly fell from the front page. Of the two recent books illuminating the events, much from previously classified Navy documents, one, "Scorpion Down", by Ed Offley, chooses to sensationalize Scorpion in Cold War intrigue and Pentagon conspiracy. "Silent Steel", by Stephen Johnson, is the other, and for my money, the better. Rather than trying to grab headlines of his own, Johnson's documentary paints an accurate and surprisingly lively portrait not only of what is know about the last days of the Scorpion, but also of life aboard a US Navy nuke during the Cold War.
Painstakingly researched but told in the vernacular, Johnson steps through the various theories of the Scorpion's demise: was it the accidental detonation of one of its own torpedoes, failure of a weld in the pressure hull, an explosion in the main battery compartment, or the highly unlikely attack by a hostile Soviet sub? Johnson is at all time is respectful of the sacrifices of the submarine service, and, in treatment reminiscent of Robert Kurson's "Shadow Divers", places the dignity and sanctity of the crew's eternal resting place above all else. While recounting the evidence as cited in a string of official investigations, Johnson also weaves in a strong and poignant dose of personal interest, bringing to life the officers and crew so long forgotten by so many. Ultimately, while the author offers no final solutions, he does the US Navy a great favor by shedding light on the clandestine operations of "the silent service". In short, a quick, intelligent, and educational read that is long overdue. Highly recommended.
The Benchmark on the Subject.......2007-06-30
With "Silent Steel", Stephen Johnson has written the most well-researched and comprehensive book on the Scorpion disaster to date. His exceptional human insight and unwavering devotion to the facts set this book apart from similar books on the subject. There is no smoking gun in this book; no government conspiracy, and no UFOs. Instead there is a comprehensive report on the brave men who took Scorpion on her final dive.
Sadly, other new books on the Scorpion disaster have glamorized the conspiracy theory, using this incident to sell books. When reading Stephen Johnson's book, you may find yourself thinking "Okay, come on, you've obviously done a ton of research on this...let's hear your theory about the Soviet Echo-II that sank the Scorpion". Fortunately, he doesn't go there. I think that's because he's done the research and knows better.
I just retired from the US Navy after 23 years. Half of that time was spent in the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System, tracking submarines around the world, and the other half was spent as a Submarine Sonar Technician, on submarines around the world. There is no conspiracy.
Stephen Johnson did justice to USS Scorpion and the families of the crew. He didn't follow hare-brained theories or threads of circumstance; he merely reported what happened in a riveting book. This is a book for anyone...average citizens, military historians, or scientists. Read this book before or after you read any of the other current books on USS Scorpion; this will set you straight.
Brett Beedles
Engrossing, well-written.......2007-05-02
Stephen Johnson's "Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion" is a highly detailed account of the last months of the US Navy nuclear submarine, lost in the Atlantic off the Azores on May 22, 1968, and of the various official investigations aimed at uncovering the reasons for that loss. Johnson follows the official chronology established by the Navy (in contrast to Ed Offley in "Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon, The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion") but reaches a different conclusion as to the underlying cause of the disaster (the Navy inquiries in general favored a torpedo accident of some kind, but Johnson believes some other equipment failure - perhaps a battery explosion or maybe merely a trash disposal unit that failed to seal properly - that led to an uncontrolled descent to a depth where the great pressure crushed the hull). The evidence for and against each proposed cause is examined in detail. All in all, an engrossing and well-written book.
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"One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968 a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence, assembled here for the first time, strongly suggests that the sub, K-129, sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile, most likely at the naval base at Pearl Harbor. We now know that the Soviets had lost track of the sub; it had become a rogue. While the Soviets searched in vain for the boat, U.S. intelligence was able to pinpoint the site of the disaster. The new Nixon administration launched a clandestine, half-billion-dollar project to recover the sunken K-129. Contrary to years of deliberately misleading reports, the recovery operation was a great success. With the recovery of the sub, it became clear that the rogue was attempting to mimic a Chinese submarine, almost certainly with the intention of provoking a war between the U.S. and China. This was a carefully planned operation that, had it succeeded, would have had devastating consequences. During the successful recovery effort, the U.S. forged new relationships with the USSR and China. Could the information gleaned from the sunken sub have been a decisive factor shaping the new policies of détente between the Americans and the Soviets, and opening China to the West? And who in the USSR could have planned such a bold and potentially catastrophic operation? Red Star Rogue reads like something straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, but it is all true. Today our greatest fear is that terrorists may someday acquire a nuclear weapon and use it against us. In fact, they have already tried. "
Customer Reviews:
Red Star Rogue.......2007-10-01
This book accurately relates parts of history that have remained a mystery for years. There is some speculation, however, the author is very convincing and has done his homework. I throughly enjoyed reading this book.
Red Star Rogue Belongs on the Bad Fiction Shelf.......2007-09-08
As another reviewer, William F. Twist, states, authors Kenneth Sewell and Clint Richmond claimed the acoustic signatures of the Soviet diesel submarine, K-129, recorded by a PERMIT Class submarine in 1968 were processed by land-based Cray supercomputers when the first such computer was not completed until 1976,
In 1968, the year K-129 sank, and for several years thereafter, any recordings of Soviet submarines made by US submarines would have been sent to the Naval Scientific and Techincal Intelligence Center (NAVSTIC) in Building 52 on the grounds of the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. Then, as now, such detection events were analyzed by Intelligence Research Specialists with near photographic memories. Computers were not then, nor are they now, used to evaluate such data. (This may come as a shock to those who believe computers are capable of solving almost all complex analytical problems.) As head of the Branch within NAVSTIC responsible for the analysis of all such data, I can state categorically that no K-129 acoustic signature information was received from any US submarine in 1968.
This, and other egregious errors documented by Twist, indicate Sewell and Richmond engaged in the complete fabrication of events to support their conspiracy theory and sell the book.
Sadly, this has become common practice by those who must be called "hack journalists." The motive: sell books to the technically uniformed and conspiracy gullible public. A more recent example is Ed Offley's book, SCORPION DOWN, which propounds unfounded conspiracy theories and ignores the pressure-collapsed condition of the wreckage on the bottom and the complete absence of any damage consistent with a torpedo attack.
SCORPION was lost because of an onboard problem the crew could not overcome before the submarine sank to collapse depth. The Soviets were miles away minding their own business. Sewell's next book, "All HANDS DOWN: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS SCORPION," due out 15 April 2008, will doubtless follow the same conspiracy story line although we can expect a few new fabrications to convince the buying public that Sewell's book is "better" than Offley's. We can also expect other hack journalists to provide back-of-the-dust-jacket reviews praising Sewell's effort as "a daring expose that reveals what the US Navy has for decades kept hidden" or some such drivel. This is a neat - but not very nice - reciprocal (quid pro quo) arrangement among such journalists: "You endorse my book and I'll endorse yours." This leaves the prospective buyer without an objective assessment of such books until they are critically reviewed - and their technical weaknesses exposed - in limited distribution publications such as NAVY TIMES or the US NAVAL INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS.
Astonishing.......2007-06-15
Although much of the data was not declassified until recently, one can certainly see where authors such as Tom Clancy have found their inspiration. This is a riveting true story. Regardless of your opinions of the author's conclusions, the facts and details are endlessly fascinating. To know the story of Red Star Rogue is to understand better the dynamics of the Cold War.
Good, but I'm not quite buying it.......2007-06-11
There have been a lot of quibbles about details in the various reviews, most of them are missing the fundamental point: If it wasn't an attempted rogue launch, what was it?
On the other hand, I don't buy the notion that the missile was destroyed by a fail-safe. There's one problem with that notion: Why was somebody outside at launch? I can't imagine that that would be survivable. I think it's much more likely something went wrong preparing to launch.
Addressing various gripes:
I don't think disagreements about exactly where it sunk matter because the CIA has an incentive to hide it's true location.
As for the guy who said there would be nothing to salvage if the nuke went off--it's only the high explosive that seems to have gone off. If you simply fire one of the detonators the warhead will be blown to bits but will *NOT* produce a nuclear yield. All the detonators must be fired at *EXACTLY* the right instant for it to make a mushroom cloud.
As for China not having such missiles--they did. The Gulf I the Russians sold them. They didn't have h-bombs to put on them but we had no conclusive evidence they didn't have them, either.
Pass the Nuts please!.......2007-05-22
I claim to know almost nothing about subs, being an old grunt myself. But I have read Cotten Collier's "A Matter of Risk" which covered the Project Jennifer and was written in the 1980's by a member of the Project Staff.
His claims jive with Craven's as to the status of the sub on the ocean floor (broken in two), the parts recovered and the fact the recovered section of boat broke in two while being lifed off the floor and the Conning Tower was lost. One missile also fell out of its tube to the floor.
Also at least one torpedo with a atomic warhead was recovered. As Collier's Brother was part of the crew that took the sub apart screw by screw, I'd take his version over.
I'd say that the "story" would make much more sense if he included Space Aliens, Di-Lithium Crystals, and a few cute kittens for the "human intrest" value.
I sincely hope the writers go back on their Meds before they write another book.
If you want a book thats more believable, buy "The Book of the Subgenius" here. I'd beleive in J.R. "Bob" Dobbs before I'd believe these guys!
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Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of what happened on April 26, 1986, when the worst nuclear reactor accident in history contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Svetlana Alexievich a journalist who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this bookinterviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown. Their narratives form a crucial document revealing how the government masked the event with deception and denial. Harrowing and unforgettable, Voices from Chernobyl bears witness to a tragedy and its aftermath in a book that is as unforgettable as it is essential.
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Profound and important.......2007-09-10
This book is a punch in the gut. There's no nicer way to say it. It's downright devastating. It's something that every single person should read. Even if you only know Chernobyl vaguely, two things are made painfully apparent by this book: whatever you've read about Chernobyl in the past has probably grossly underestimated the magnitude of the disaster; and the death and injury toll from the accident hasn't stopped yet. Not by a long shot.
In her quest to expose the human cost of Chernobyl, journalist Svetlana Alexievich presents three years' worth of interviews with a wide cross-section of individuals. Unlike most books about Chernobyl, the focus is on the people of Belarus, who were not evacuated as quickly as their southern neighbors in Ukraine. The breadth of the author's research is astounding. The reader meets the widow of one of the first responders to the Chernobyl accident, a young firefighter who arrived at the nuclear plant clad only in his street clothes and ended up suffering an agonizing death in a Moscow radiation ward only 14 days later. There are children who were evacuated from surrounding cities and parents of children who have died from radiation-related illnesses. There's a respected scientist who, learning of the Chernobyl disaster, made frantic calls to all the Soviet brass in Minsk he could think of, only to be ignored. There are elderly men and women who have returned to the Exclusion Zone to live in solitude, eating radioactive crops. There are liquidators who toiled for months shoring up the reactor's ruins, only to receive a medal, a certificate and a serious or terminal illness as thanks. There's even an ex-Soviet official who tries to justify the cover-ups surrounding the Chernobyl crisis.
No angle is ignored, and no detail, no matter how horrifying, is politely edited out. Alexievich allows her subjects to tell their stories honestly and frankly. Voices from Chernobyl presents a profound moment of truth for a situation that, for 20 years, has been seeped in denial and secrecy. Very highly recommended.
Frst hand accounts.......2007-08-28
Touching first hand accounts of the people effected by the fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Accounts of how land and the popluation were forever devasted and chagned, how the Soviet government secretly handled the containment and clean up and blinded many who dutifully responded by withholding and not inforing of the danger. The first story of the wife of a fireman who was one of the first on scene and her pain as she watched him die was the most gripping account to me. First hand accounts tell of poeple who have remained in Chernobyl, the way the land once looked and now looks and the soldiers who were sent to guard and contain the site. Overall I did find the book touching and intereting but towards the end, I did find the stories somewhat redundant of the theme.
This Book Will Break Your Heart.......2007-07-27
This book brought tears to my eyes reading the stories that these people have gone through. One would have to be made of stone not to cry over all that these wonderful people have had to go through.
Stories of love, death, sickness,pain, despair, and the reality of what could happen here in the States if we ever had a nuclear accident like they did. We must not grow lax or lazy and think it could not happen here, because the truth of the matter is that it could happen here. This book has convinced me more than ever, that nuclear power is not something that I want us to pursue as an souce of energy in this country.
I believe that it is important that I pass this book on so that more people can read this book. I want as many people to read this book, so that they know the facts of what would happen if we had a nuclear accident here in the States.
Voices from Chernobyl........2007-04-02
This was not the book I was looking for but it was the book I read. Far from an historical recreation of the disaster, Voices from Chernobyl is a personal confessional, a lyric documentation of intense human emotions. Svetlana Alexiech presents each story without comment or judgement. It is a stream of conscoiusness, profoundly moving in the face of this 1986 nuclear disaster, the gross incompetence of the Soviet Government and failure to contain the radioactive contamination. The stories are of those who stayed, those who came to help, those who died and those who survived. Haunting, moving, emotional, revealing, shocking, sad and inspirational. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.
And You Think Hurricane Katrina Was A Disaster??.......2007-02-13
This book is a collection of stories, commentaries, and monologues from the people who lived and continue to live through the Chernobyl crisis. Their voices are simple and honest but come from the heart and clearly depict their hardship and suffering. Their voices also give portrayal to their culture which combines old world peasantry and Soviet collectivism that is clashing with an unexplainable, unseeable, and futuristic horror. It is this clash that renders the whole catastrophe so heartbreaking. That a simple, family oriented, agrarian society who have already lived through so much suffering be victim to such an accident is quite heartbreaking. And to make matters worse, the lack of education, support, protection, and management by the Soviet government is apalling. The failures of a socialistic bureacracy are quite apparent. After reading this book, I can clearly argue why nuclear technology should not be placed in the hands of governments such as Iran or North Korea who already have a record of irresponsibility. Allowing these countries to develop nuclear energy is like giving a three year old a loaded gun to play with. Well written and well deserving of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction.
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The Chernobyl disaster of April 1986 confronted Europe with an unprecedented, though not unforeseeable, environmental risk. This investigative analysis studies why key European countries responded in different ways to the nuclear disaster, and what can be learned from it.
The author details why the accident was defined differently in various countries, why actions were or were not taken, and what was learned about the management of nuclear risk. Furthermore, Liberatore studies the short-term and long-term responses and consequences of Chernobyl not only in specific countries, but within the European Union as a whole. Liberatore also provides a policy communication model to illustrate the interaction among the key personnel in such incidents: the scientists, the politicians, the interest groups, and the mass media. The author's focus upon "uncertainty management" is a compelling account for all who seek to understand and improve the practical management of transboundary risks.
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In 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, 135,000 people were evacuated. Almost twenty years later, the area remains a no-man's land, with radiation too intense for people to live there safely. Amazingly, though, it is nevertheless home to a unique and extraordinary new ecosystem.
When the explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor complex that fateful day, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioactive material into the air, one of the world's worst nightmares was realized. As the news gradually seeped out of the USSR and the extent of the disaster was confirmed, it became clear how horribly wrong things had gone. Dozens died - two from the explosion and many more from radiation illness over the following months - while scores of additional people became ill with acute radiation sickness. The prognosis for Chernobyl and its environs - succinctly dubbed the Zone of Alienation - was grim.
But if fears of the Apocalypse and a lifeless, barren radioactive future have been constant companions of the nuclear age, twenty years later Chernobyl shows us a different view of the future. Not only have pockets of defiant local residents remained behind to survive and make a life in the Zone, the area surrounding Chernobyl has become Europe's largest wildlife sanctuary, a flourishing - at times unearthly - wilderness teeming with large animals, many of them members of rare and endangered species. Like the forests, fields, and swamps of their unexpectedly inviting habitat, both the people and the animals are all radioactive. Cesium-137 is packed in their muscles and strontium-90 in their bones. But quite astonishingly, they are also thriving.
Donning dosimeter and protective gear, intrepid journalist Mary Mycio explored the world's only radioactive wilderness to report on the long-term effects of the disaster. A vivid blend of reportage, popular science, and illuminating encounters that explode the myths of Chernobyl with facts that are at once beautiful and horrible, Wormwood Forest brings a remarkable land - and its people and animals - to life to tell a unique story of science, surprise, and suspense.
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Fascinating book that should be required for biology classes!.......2006-11-05
I came across this book when I made friends with someone from the Ukraine... the book grew and grew on me as I read it; I did not realize until towards the end that the author had deftly taken us through the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, and then through a gestalt of the land and people. (I like the casual way she would check her radiation meter to see how much radiation she was getting at a given pond, bog or town). So we kind of weave our way through the history, then the air, plants, ground, water,animals, people, and towns affected by Chernobyl. There's a lot of science but Mary Mycio makes you feel like, hey, you too understand all the bits and pieces about leftover radiation. So two things happen as you read the book; you feel like are in the car with her and her guides. And then to you see how nature has come back in an awesome way and taken over what is still a nuclear wasteland.(The wildlife has thrived and rebounded since people are gone from their radioactive world). Amazing book; all science majors should read this!
Informative, Entertaining, Well-Written.......2006-05-28
This book works on several levels. The initial premise is that the Chenobyl disaster did not create a barren wasteland, as we might have anticipated. Rather, the "Zone of Alienation", from which nearly all humans have been removed, has become a flourishing nature preserve. Working from that point, the author explores the disaster and its consequences from a number of perspectives. There is a discussion of the accident itself, of the initial efforts to deal with it, and then with the long term effects, not only upon the plants and animals of the Zone, but also upon people - who continue to work and even live inside the Zone.
The writing is clear, perhaps due to Ms. Mycio's journalistic background. It is also very engaging, because she is intensely interested in the subject, and shares the reasons for her interest with the reader. For those of us who will never have the opportunity to visit the Zone, this book is really the next best thing.
The author has a website which makes a terrific supplement to the book, with generous photo galleries organized according in parallel to the book: www.chernobyl.in.ua
Disappointed........2006-04-13
The author's lackluster story-telling left me dizzy. There was no glue to hold together what should have been a phenomenal story---especially considering her background. And the attempt at explaining the math, physics, chemistry, and nuclear science was inept at best.
A shame.
A fascinating tale of life in the forbidden zone.......2006-03-21
Displaying remarkable courage, Mary Mycio set out to examine what has become of that forbidden, virtually unpeopled realm around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of the greatest ecological catastrophes of modern times. Her findings are surprising and intriguing, and will keep readers turning pages at night. A fascinating tale!
Out of Nuclear Ashes, springs hope.......2005-10-26
There is a popular song in Ukrainian Folk culture, "Two Colors". Black, that is sadness and Red that is joy. These two colors often are used in the famous Ukrainian Embroidered shirts and blouses. My reading of Mary Mycio's fabulous book, "Wormwood Forest" reminded me of this song. There is so much pain in this book, yet there is joy at coming to know some truths about a modern day cover-up. Mycio writes about complicated technical things regarding nuclear energy and the horrible accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine in such away that you don't need to have a scientific background to understand the picture. Yet, those with a scientific background will find this book informative. Want to find out what happened at Chernobyl, and what's happening now - then read this book!
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March 7, 1968: Several hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, the nuclear-armed K-129 surfaces and then sinks; all of its crewmen and officers perish at sea. Who was commanding the rogue Russian sub? What was its target? How did it infiltrate American waters undetected? Navy veteran Kenneth Sewell, drawing from newly declassified documents and extensive confidential interviews, exposes the stunning truth behind an operation calculated to provoke war between the U.S. and China -- a nightmare scenario averted by only seconds. In full, authoritative detail, Red Star Rogue illuminates this history-shaping event -- and rings with chilling relevance in light of today's terrorist threat.
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Red Star Rogue Belongs on the Bad Fiction Shelf.......2007-09-07
As another reviewer, William F. Twist, states, authors Kenneth Sewell and Clint Richmond claimed the acoustic signatures of the Soviet diesel submarine, K-129, recorded by a PERMIT Class submarine in 1968 were processed by land-based Cray supercomputers when the first such computer was not completed until 1976,
In 1968, the year K-129 sank, and for several years thereafter, any recordings of Soviet submarines made by US submarines would have been sent to the Naval Scientific and Techincal Intelligence Center (NAVSTIC) in Building 52 on the grounds of the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. Then, as now, such detection events were analyzed by Intelligence Research Specialists with near photographic memories. Computers were not then, nor are they now, used to evaluate such data. (This may come as a shock to those who believe computers are capable of solving almost all complex analytical problems.) As head of the Branch within NAVSTIC responsible for the analysis of all such data, I can state categorically that no K-129 acoustic signature information was received from any US submarine in 1968.
This, and other egregious errors documented by Twist, indicate Sewell and Richmond engaged in the complete fabrication of events to support their conspiracy theory and sell the book.
Sadly, this has become common practice by those who must be called "hack journalists." The motive: sell books to the technically uniformed and conspiracy gullible public. A more recent example is Ed Offley's book, SCORPION DOWN, which propounds unfounded conspiracy theories and ignores the pressure-collapsed condition of the wreckage on the bottom and the complete absence of any damage consistent with a torpedo attack.
SCORPION was lost because of an onboard problem the crew could not overcome before the submarine sank to collapse depth. The Soviets were miles away minding their own business. Sewell's next book, "All HANDS DOWN: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS SCORPION," due out 15 April 2008, will doubtless follow the same conspiracy story line although we can expect a few new fabrications to convince the buying public that Sewell's book is "better" than Offley's. We can also expect other hack journalists to provide back-of-the-dust-jacket reviews praising Sewell's effort as "a daring expose that reveals what the US Navy has for decades kept hidden" or some such drivel. This is a neat - but not very nice - reciprocal (quid pro quo) arrangement among such journalists: "You endorse my book and I'll endorse yours." This leaves the prospective buyer without an objective assessment of such books until they are critically reviewed - and their technical weaknesses exposed - in limited distribution publications such as NAVY TIMES or the US NAVAL INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS.
interesting but hardly believable.......2007-05-20
Many reviews have already summarized the theme of this book, so I will
not repeat. I think the story is interesting, but there are just too many
things in this book which is suspicious that one can hardly believe it.
One point I would like to put forward is the following: the author claim
that the missile launch and sunk of the boat took place at an exact
integer longitude and latitude. He said that this is to trick
the US to believe it is from a Chinese sub, which could only launch missiles from such exact positions. This hardly believable. There is not
anything special about exact longitude or latitude. Missile launch can
easily be made from any longitude and latitude, it requires no more complicated math than a simple interpolation table, and is much simpler than navigating the submarine itself.
Interesting Story But Long on Speculation.......2007-05-06
RED STAR ROGUE is an interesting account about a supposed rogue Soviet submarine that allegedly attempted a nuclear strike against Honolulu in 1968. The authors, lacking specific, corroborating information, engage in a considerable amount of speculation. Moreover, they cannot make a point or present a fact without repeating it at least once--usually within a couple of pages--causing this reader to lose patience. Remove the speculation and the repetition and you would have more of a pamphlet than a book. Nonethless, this book, despite its sensationalist tone, appears to be the most well researched account of this incident publicly available.
Interesting . . . but is it true?.......2007-04-18
I have a hard time making up my mind on this one...
Either RSR is a bunch of paranoid nonsense or its one of the most facinating episodes from the Cold War. I really don't have the expertise to know whether the authors claims are accurate or not; the "facts" are connected with a lot of assumptions and conjecture; still, the story does seem to have a ring of truth to it.
Did a rogue Soviet submarine attempt to nuke Pearl Harbor and frame China? It seems possible but I suppose we'll never really know. Even so, the mere possibility that it could be true makes RSR a compelling read.
Factually challenged, to say the least........2007-02-12
First, I want to say that I really, really wanted to like this book. I really did. But there were so many factual problems with it, that I can't take it seriously.
First and foremost, the author mentions on several pages that the explosion aboard K-129 was monitored by a US early warning satellite. The problem with this is that according to "Guardians, Strategic Reconnaissance Satellites" by Curtis Peebles (Presidio Press, 1987. ISBN 0-89141-284-0), a comprehensive work on intelligence satellites from the beginning until 1985, there were no early warning satellites in operation in March 1968, when K-129 went down. The low orbit MIDAS follow-up program was cancelled in 1966 (due to problems with coverage and false alarms), and Project 949, its geosynchronous replacement, wasn't launched until August of 1968. So, it couldn't have been been monitored, because we didn't have the capability at the time K-129 sank.
Also, Sewell claims that the sailing was timed to prevent it from being detected by photoreconaissance satellites, but again we run into an issue: At the time, *ALL* US photorecon satellites were 'film return' types. In other words, they imaged what they saw directly on to film, and when they were done they returned that film back to Earth to be developed and interpreted. After they ejected the film, they were essentially useless. Referring back to "Guardians" again, we find that the Russians didn't have to try very hard to evade them: Launch 1968-5 was on January 18th, and had a lifetime of 17 days. That put the return back on February 5th. K-129 sailed on February 24th. The next US launch wasn't until March 13th, almost a week after K-129 sank.
Also, the author claims that K-129 was followed by a Permit class submarine, and that this sub recorded the acoustical signature for later processing on land-based Cray supercomputers. Remember, this is 1968. Seymour Cray didn't found Cray Research until 1972, and the first Cray-1 wasn't completed until 1976. Now, I have no doubt that the boat could have been followed, and its signature recorded for processing back on land, but if the author makes a mistake like this (and the aforementioned ones), how can you trust the other claims?
There are other problems as well.
I find it completely plausible that we wanted to raise the boat for examination of the missiles, especially the warheads, and to get the code materials. Now, it is true that the code machine and settings would have been old. Those not familiar with the story of how the British broke the German naval Enigma back in WWII would wonder how 5 year old code materials could be of help in breaking new codes. First, because K-129 was a strategic nuclear asset, it is likely that it had the best code machine the Russians could produce. That means that likely it was still in use at the time of the attempt to raise it. Even if it was not, it would allow us to decode the material from the time of the sinking (provided the codebooks containing the settings for the machine had been preserved - a pretty likely scenario). That would give us insight into the communications of the Soviet Navy with its ballistic missile submarines. Because military messages tend to be pretty strictly formatted, and those formats don't change greatly over the years, that would give those in the NSA working on the then current Soviet codes probable texts to use as 'cribs' to help them decode Soviet naval communications.
This book reminds me of a book I read a long time ago about the Face on Mars. All speculation, and very little actual factual information. I was sorely disappointed, because I was hoping that over the years new light would have been shed on the sinking and subsequent recovery of at least part of the K-129. Unfortunately, this book ain't it. Instead of shining a light, this book obscures the actual incident in supposition, speculation, and outright misrepresentations of the facts.
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Please visit to Hiroshima,Nagasaki, and listen to the survivor's voice.......2005-08-29
Hibakusha's age(the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where is only city fell atomic bombs in the world) is getting to be older recently. Their age will be over 70 years old in many cases. At the same time, the young people in Japan who don't know about Genbaku in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at that time well is increasing. That will be uneasy truth for the mean that the fear of atomic bombs disappear. But when August comes in Japan, many Japanese remember about atomic bombs in H and N (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), why? Because the atomic bombs fell down in August 1945.
Even now, in Japan at August many TV programs are broadcasted. The deads were over 100000 in Hiroshima, 70000 in Nagasaki. People over 95% that lived inner 1km from the center where the bomb fell were killed immediately and some people that lived inner 2km had heavy skim burn in their all body. The fear of atomic bomb is not always only the number of the victim. The burn is never the same of the bomb victim in ordinary mean, that is, because when the atomic bombs exploded the temperature was over 3000, they had heavy skin burn over our imagination. In addition to that, their scars never disappeared till their death, called Keroido, for the heat ray made when the bomb exploded included radiation. Their radiation destroyed their skin cells. The burn never disappeared till their death. Off course, that meant that the burn was fatal mental point for young girls who spent fresh daily life in those days. Can you imagine about the girl's despair and agony that dared to choose the suicide killing for the cruel daily lifes after they injured heavy burn on all the body? I never have the thinking that I want to blame for American by explaining and expressing such cruel things. Certainly, the atomic bombs might be good choice for finishing WW2, however the weapon has dreadful factors over our imagination like I have written already.
If you have the chance that you go to Japan, I recommend going to Hiroshima at any cost, going to many Genbaku bomb memorial place, especially to Genbaku Peace Memorial Museum. Apart from the factor whether county have the responsibility of the war, by watching the cruel photograph or the clothes that they put on those days, you must feel a kind of shock absolutely, may feel a kind of the sympathy for them at that time, or may feel the anger for the war. And in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is the event of Hibakutaiken Dan, the act that Hibakusya (the survivors of H and N) tell about the peace by talking the dreadful scenes to travelers. I recommend that you listen to their talk when you go to Hiroshima or Nagasaki. There are the talkers who can tell with easy English for them, too.
I pray that all the atomic weapons on earth disappeared as Japanese, the first and last atomic victim county.
Thank you for reading poor English till last sentence.
I was overwhelmed by this book........1999-01-03
I bought this book while visiting Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, in November 1998. Even if I had not been to this incredible place, this book alone would have affected me greatly. The accounts are brief and striking. My heart ached for the children, whether they were the Hibakusha (Bomb Survivors)telling the story as an adult, or whether they were describing a horrific scene involving these innocents. This isn't a dry historical account with scientific information and political overview. It is a recollection of activities, emotions, and devastation experienced by real people on and since August 6, 1945. I wish there were more books along this line, written as well as this one.
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Informative and Enjoyable.......2007-05-25
I really enjoyed this book. As a teenager with a morbid interest in nuclear accidents like Chernobyl, Medvedev gave a perfect amount of detail and information while making his account readable. This book is very well-written, which I didn't expect when I checked it out. It reads almost like a novel rather than like a non-fiction book. However, like others have said, it doesn't give a lot of definition for things like nuclear measurements (I must admit, I looked for a glossary when I saw the word "roetgen").
All in all, a great book and a pleasant surprise.
"Counting lives" meant "killing people".......2007-03-18
Those who wish to hide the truth delight
in creating new vocabulary to hide behind.
On p 234, Medvedev writes:
"...the phrase 'counting lives' had
acquired a new meaning." The meaning
was the number of men to be killed
in a procedure being considered.
However, I was disappointed he didn't
mention "bio-robots," the euphemism for
men sent to handle the fuel rods w/o
any protection.
I agree with other reviews that the
author (a) is a good writer and the
story moves right along, and (b) he
assumes that the readers knows a bit
more about nuclear measurements than
most of us do.
An enjoyable read.......2006-08-30
Grigori Medvedev puts us on a time machine back into a nostalgic world of nuclear innocence. The world in consternation by the destructive power of the atom at the end of the World War, has forgotten quickly within 30 years of what devastation and power the atom still holds. The book is simple enough to entertain the public but also has a touch of sophistication that entices even the unimpressionable scientists and engineers. First the book surgical removes the bland details of the events that led up to the crisis in Chernobyl. It quickly gives the reader a background that he needs to get himself emerged into the crisis. It does an excellent job in taking someone like myself who has no background in the science or the history of the disaster to a nominal understanding that led to the disaster and its after effects. It not only seeks a scientific approach but also provide a statement of how politics and science can clash and lead to catastrophic accidents. The bulk of the book is spent on the events of the 2 critical days of April 1986, which is followed by his very poignant criticism of the leadership and the academia that allowed such a culture to be embedded in Russian mentality. The shift in mentality that was set in as a result of Chernobyl is the most interesting part I thought of the book. He claims that Chernobyl has brought a warning to "man not to become intoxicated with his own power, not to take [that] power lightly, and not to seek in it ephemeral gains and pleasure and the glitter of prestige." The same recurring theme of pride and power, which haunts all man in every civilization and which opens for war and destruction, fuels also the scientific and engineering achievements. Of anything, I take away from the reading that even in the scientific world, one have to examine the agenda and the truthfulness of the material presented which cleverly hides behind the complex language of science.
Excellent second book to read about Chernobyl.......2006-05-05
This book is an excellent account of the accident. Besides being personally knowlegable, the author quotes NUMEROUS eye-witnesses to the disaster. He goes minute-by-minute (sometimes second-by-second) with virtually all the individuals who were present during the accident, and the politicians who, before and during the accident, made things worse.
However, in order to fully appreciate this book, some prior knowlege is needed. For example, terms like roentgens (a measure of radiation exposure) were never explained in laymen's terms - although even a layman can understand that, as the author points out, an instrument whose scale only goes up to 3.6 roentgens is inadequate to measure radiation in the range of 20,000 roentgens! Thus, most of the most important facts are fairly easy to deduce from context, although a glossery of nuclear terms would have been helpful.
Because the author has such a detailed knowlege of the subject, his account can occasionally loose the forest for the trees. For this reason, I say that it is an EXCELLENT second book to read about the disaster. If you already know the outlines of the events and have had the major terms defined for you (the "forest") by some other book, you cannot find a better book to explore every "tree" in detail. You don't need a physics doctorate, just some basic background.
But, even without any prior knowlege - my situation - the author's writing style is excellent. He captures the drama and the heroism with crackling intensity. He jumps from person to person, all around the plant, but he keeps the context, so the reader can see all these diffenerent groups and individuals working desperately in lethal conditions. And his pacing is excellent. Every person's experiences are described in detail, yet no one's account is sacrificed for anyone else's.
In conclusion, go get some basic background first, then READ THIS BOOK.
Chernobyl - have the lessons been learned?.......2005-09-23
I found this report a fascinating insight into the safety of the nuclear power industry in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. Mr Medvedev is actually pro nuclear but he makes it clear we have to take responsibility for the massive potential for destruction that this technology entails - even during everyday operations. Mr Medvedev in turn provides detailed technical analysis, describes the psychology of the individual's involved and the inervating affect on decision making of a bureaucratic culture that rewarded cronyism and did not want to know about problems. The technical details took me a couple of reads to grasp sufficiently to understand the unfolding disaster, but this was offset by the human story and emotional response of the author to the disaster and its aftermath.
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This unique manual shows you how to survive a nuclear nightmare by providing an exhaustive investigation of survival strategies and of the problems that will face those who survive. The author outlines step-by-step procedures for preparing and defending shelters, storing food, treating illnesses and injuries and understanding the psychology of survival. With its dozens of useful charts, lists, drawings and photos, this book also serves as an excellent reference on surviving any major disaster.
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How to Prepare for the Realities of Nuclear Conflict.......2006-06-25
Bruce Clayton's book was written during 1979 not too many years after Nixon frightened us with his threat - "I can go in to my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes 70 million people will be dead"p15. Clayton's book was published in 1980 during the end of Carter's Presidency. Ronald Reagan's lot had been stirring up American fears of the "Red Scare", while Ed Clark's message of liberty was smothered by Demopublican independent John Andersen whose presidential campaign preserved the Demopublican one-party system. I purchased this book in 1980 while stationed on Shemya Island, where we watched the Soviets decay from their own corruption. It was difficult for me to take Clayton's fears on nuclear conflict seriously because the Soviets were technologically a joke!
Having said that, this was a well-written book IF there ever was to be a global nuclear conflict. And with Adolf Bush today playing lapdog to his British bosses, it is not beyond possibility that the Benedict Arnold will lob a few "limited" nuclear warheads around the globe on behalf of American-powered British empire. Clayton's book will be useful to those starving thirdworlders unfortunate to live atop black gold (oil) or opium fields. Clayton's survival information could help an Afghan (who don't even have a hot-air balloon let alone an air force!) to survive British or American nuclear strikes.
Clayton is an ecologist whose PhD research took him to Montana. He wrote "Since I was doing field research in an area liberally sprinkled with Minuteman missile silos, it was not long before my interests expanded to include the ecological consequences of a full scale thermonuclear war"(pix). He pooh-poohs the idea that nuclear conflict will destroy the earth 300 times over; in fact, he says this is all fantasy! There WILL be survivors, whether they intended to survive or not. And he believes that it is best to prepare for survival ("it is almost unavoidable"px) rather than muddle through it like the bookish bank teller (played by Burgess Meredith) in The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough At Last" (1959).
Clayton's book contains 8 chapters with a preface and 7 appendices. The chapters are "It's a Disaster", "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Nuclear War", "To Flee or Not to Flee", "Home Sweet Hole", "A Loaf of Bread, A Jug of Wine, and Chow", "Nobody Makes Housecalls Anymore", "To Have and To Hold", and "Wake Me When It's Over". The appendices are "Nuclear Target Areas Within the United States", "Fallout Pattern Data", "Expedient Shelter Construction", "The Kearny Air Pump", "Supplementary Medical Information", "Special Radiological Information", and "The Kearny Fallout meter".
Clayton's book reveals that nuclear conflict is possible because survival is unavoidable - that alone is incentive enough to read this book. The turncoats in Washington are itching to put Clayton's hypothesis to the test.
A Classic! Still essential reading in the post Cold War era.......2004-07-06
Bruce Clayton's cold war vintage survival classic, Life After Doomsday, still makes worthwhile reading in the age of terrorist threats, North Korean ballistic missiles, Iranian nukes, and germ warfare. While some of the specific information, such as the location of counterforce targets (US missile and bomber bases)is out-dated, much of the insight remains valid. For the generation born after 1980, the book provides absolutely priceless perspective on the meaning of "The Cold War" and the risks faced by civilian and military alike during that era. The prospect of global nuclear war, a constant in the Reagan years, puts today's small scale terrorist threats into an entirely different perspective.
In fact Clayton remains one of the most concise, intelligent, and useful sources for any individual, family or group contemplating the dangers of contemporary life. It is a shame that Dr. Clayton, to date, has not applied his energy, intellect and unique insight to updating his work with information addressing the changes in the threat/probabilities along with the advances in technology useful in survival situations. It has been almost 25 years, the world has changed dramatically and we have had some new experiences from which to draw lessons. Come on Dr. Clayton, how about it! Until the 2nd edition is published, this is still about the best general source for contemporary survival advice available.
Yeah Right...........2004-04-13
"The information in this book is suited for no other disasters than a minimal nuclear accident. The information is old., dated and poor."......As my Dad used to say, "Horse Hockey." This is just another person who has let the government "experts" convince him that since no one can survive a nuclear war, you should not try. The fact is, that many experts believe that surviving is possible. But on the bright side, since so many numbnuts will not even try, there will not be so many people driving slow in the left lane in the future.
Great book for getting ready for the worst senario..........2004-01-12
This is THE best book on the subject of Nuclear war and other major disasters I have ever read. Dr. Clayton walks you through everything nuclear, from effects of air bursts, ground bursts, EMP, to every other nuclear topic imaginable. While famous for its nuclear information, this book is writen as a primer to surviving ANY disaster. Our Motto here at Alpha Group is(as you know) "It doesn't matter what causes the situation, you should be prepared to survive it". This book fits perfectly with that philosophy.
I consider this book one of the "MUST HAVE" books in any survival library. Not only does this book contain fantastic and interesting reading, but with its dozens of charts, lists, drawings and photos, this book serves as an excellent reference on surviving ANY major disaster. It is one of the few reference books I keep in my personal bookshelf beside the computer. When I read this book for the first time I was amazed by what I THOUGHT I knew. I was VERY wrong in many of my beliefs. Even the US government used Dr. Clayton's research to revise their policies in some areas.
Chapters covered include:
It's a disaster
Everything you ever wanted to know about nuclear war
To flee or not to flee
Home sweet hole
Nobody makes housecalls anymore
and MANY others that will keep you reading, and more importantly, will keep you alive no matter what the disaster.
Best general purpose book out there.......2003-06-06
It would be difficult to write a better all purpose survival manual. The author understands that preparing for one emergency somewhat prepares you for them all. He focuses on the practical and doesn't get immersed in the arcana of combat firearms or sidetracked into politics. I'd love to see a revised edition but the principles he outlines will be good forever.
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This attempts to understand the radioactive aftermath.......2004-07-02
The reactor at Chernobyl was too large and too well engineered to produce the kind of explosion that is considered typical for weapons, but it was capable of reaching temperatures that were much higher than mere fireman could cool by spraying water on the blaze.
For most of the people involved in fighting the fire, the temperature was a minor problem compared to the radioactive storm of particles and rays released in the reaction. The operators in the control room thought they had some control over the reaction long after two explosions had flipped the concrete lid over the reactor and blew the roof off a large building. Everyone who was not vaporized immediately knew that the reactor core had not exploded in the typical mushroom cloud catastrophe which is so familiar from hundreds of weapons tests. Due to a fire, they did not have access to equipment which could have told them how high the level of radiation being released from the core had grown, but that level was so high, it could have produced panic, so large numbers of people would never be told. Medical science is not really up to date on what people who are subject to such a subatomic particle ambush can expect for the rest of their lifespan, and all the doctors in the Soviet Union worked for the government, which never planned to tell the people much about anything.
The book, CHERNOBYL THE ONGOING STORY OF THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST NUCLEAR DISASTER by Glenn Alan Cheney, makes an honest effort to look at everything that people might learn from studying all the forms of subatomic particle ambushes that took place as a result of the Chernobyl secret circus stunt. The sense of condemnation which drives this book is fought by those who had avoided for so long the question: Who is Oedipus here, and who the Sphinx? The science found itself starting off on a strange foot:
"The victims suffered from radiation and heat burns. Their skin was browned like toasted marshmallow. In some places it was black like burned marshmallow. Their skin cracked, blistered, peeled, hung in strips. . . . Their hair fell out." (p. 43).
"The world outside the Soviet Union knew more about what was happening than the victims it was happening to. On April 28 Sweden registered the first signs of a radioactive mishap. A monitoring station noticed rising levels of radioactivity. Further analysis revealed a bizarre array of rare isotopes, a combination not normally produced by an atomic explosion or a nuclear reactor leak. One of the isotopes was ruthenium, which melts only at 4,050 degrees F (2,250 degrees C)--a temperature found only on the sun, in a melting nuclear reactor, or, for an instant, in a nuclear bomb. An assessment of atmospheric conditions pointed at the Soviet Union. Sweden announced the discovery and made diplomatic inquiries to Moscow. At first Moscow admitted to nothing but later conceded a trifling accident, a quick and minor release of radioactivity." (p. 83).
This book ought to be praised most highly for its attempt to picture what happens when subatomic particles ambush people in a way which the reader can understand. Ruthenium is not a particularly exotic chemical element, with an atomic number of 44 and an atomic weight of 101.07, it appears in the middle of the periodic table of elements in the transition elements, and as a metal it is useful in alloys for electrical contacts that don't wear or corrode. It can be great stuff, if you know how to use it. It was not the first thing that was noticed in Kiev at the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on Monday morning, April 28, 1986:
"That Monday, officials were surprised to find radiation coming into the building. It was on people's clothes. These weren't people from Chernobyl or Pripyat. They were people who had just ridden city buses to work, as they had every other morning. But this morning, April 28, the buses were radioactive. They'd been to Pripyat to pick up the evacuees. The evacuees had left so much radiation on the buses that people who sat in the seats the next morning were wearing clothes that would qualify as hazardous materials. Dosimeters showed that clothing had radiation levels five times higher than that allowed on equipment used to handle radioactive material, and thousands of times higher than that allowed to come in contact with people." (p. 85).
"The train station was probably the worst place to be. As empty trains came into the city they pulled in clouds of radioactive dust. The trains themselves were radioactive. The crowd at the station was radioactive, with everybody radiating everybody else." (pp. 89-90).
Local effects in the United States varied. "Levels of iodine 131 were lowest in the region around Texas, where the least rain had fallen, and the death rate there remained unchanged from the year before." (p. 102).
"According to information in DEADLY DECEIT, infant mortality also soared in Germany. In the most heavily contaminated regions it rose 68 percent." (p. 104).
Before the incident at Chernobyl, Lyme disease, "caused by a bacteria that was harmless to humans before 1975 . . . first appeared around Lyme, Connecticut, a few miles from the Millstone nuclear power plant. Millstone has leaked more radiation than any other U.S. nuclear power plant besides Three Mile Island, and in 1975 alone released some three million curies." (p. 106).
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