Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Typed manuscript, signed “H. G. Rickover,” one page, 8 x 10.5, February 13, 1967. Entitled “The Polaris Submarine,” manuscript reads, in part: “The USS WILL ROGERS is the last of 41 Polaris submarines authorized by Congress. The occasion seems appropriate for a brief summary of the purpose of the Polaris program. It was just a dozen years ago that the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS NAUTILUS, put to sea (17 January 1955). That same year the Navy began developing a ballistic missile for launching from a nuclear submarine. The first such missile was launched from the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, 20 July 1960. It is the combination of nuclear propulsion with long-range atomic missiles that makes Polaris submarines virtually invulnerable and highly lethal weapon systems…President John F. Kennedy, after observing a successful launch of a Polaris missile from the USS ANDREW JACKSON in November 1963, said: 'Once one has seen a Polaris firing, the efficacy of this weapon system as a deterrent is not debatable.' And President Johnson, in his special message on national defense, 18 January 1965, announced that the administration proposed to develop a new missile system--Poseidon--to increase the striking power of our missile carrying submarines. The advantage to the United States is obvious. Any would-be aggressor is aware that we possess 41 Polaris submarines, whose location he does not know, each equipped with 16 missiles having destructive power greater than that of all explosives used in World War II. For him to attack the U.S. proper, unless he had previously destroyed our Polaris fleet, would be futile." In fine condition.
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