INCLUDES INDEX.

The development of America's oceanic strategy -- The intelligence community at sea: CIA adventures in the glomar explorer -- Strategic weapons: the keepers of the peace -- The wet Cold War begins- phase one -- The making of a sea power -- Sonar: sensing the sounds of the sea -- Submarines: the evolution of the ultimate weapon -- Oceanography: the efforts to chart the abyss -- Antisubmarine warfare: weapons and tactics -- The wet cold war progresses- phase two -- Russia evolves a naval strategy -- Admiral Rickover and his dream of nuclear propulsion -- Caesar: the response to an ultimate weapon -- Admiral Sergei Gorshkov: the Russian mahan -- A casualty of the Cold War: the thresher disaster -- Admiral William F. Raborn, Jr.: management genius -- The fleet ballistic missile program: planning -- The fleet ballistic missile program: background and evolution -- The fleet ballistic missile program: marshaling the technologies -- The fleet ballistic missile program: the failures leading to success -- The fleet ballistic missile program: the why and how of winning the arms race-- The cold warriors: the legacy of Rickover and Raborn -- The wet Cold war accelerates- phase three -- Trident: the supersubmarine -- The sanguine/seafarer fable: the search for reliable submarine communication -- The antiballistic missile program: threat to the sea-base deterrent -- Strategic arms limitations: SALT I and sea power -- Maintaining naval supremacy -- The wet Cold War: fates and fortunes.