THE YEAR OF THE POLARIS POLARIS NUCLEAR SUBMARINE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON PART 2 34084

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films Visit Visit our website Reel 1: This 1960 black and white installment of See It Now produced and edited by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly (Part 2 of 2) presents a behindthescenes overview of initial testing for the UGM27 Polaris missile, a twostage solidfueled nucleararmed submarinelaunched ballistic missile, the United States Navy s first SLBM (TRT: 26:58). The USS George Washington (SSBN598) ballistic missile submarine surfaces (0:08). One of the submarines missile hatches opens. A Polaris missile is suspended above the submarine for loading (0:22). Stenciling on the hull of the George Washington (1:01). Hatches close (1:16). Admiral William Raborn and Murrow inside Sherwood Forest, the corridor of missile tubes inside the submarine. Raborn speaks on the success of the missile program, justifying the costs of the 100 million submarine