OK, without going into too much detail of what I knew (which was very little) and when I knew it (which was even less!) I was stationed at Naval Reactors soon after all this went down. All I can say (without getting into trouble for violating a "non-disclosure agreement") I signed when I first arrived there and again 3 years later when I left is that this book is VERY ACCURATE and SPOT ON with his analysis of what went down and who all was caught-up in it. The true losers in this book are 1- the American people for paying for this gargantuan rip-off of tax dollars (equal only to today's rip-off of the Joint Strike Fighter program), 2- the submarine sailors who have since the first 688 hit the waves have had to sacrifice a great tactical advantage (depth is EVERYTHING on a submarine) for speed, and 3- Admiral Rickover's reputation because he went "all-in" with EB and they burned him in the end. A sad story in the Cold War of an paranoid Congress who blindly threw billions and billions of dollars away on defense programs from Contractors with little to no government monitoring.
And the really sad and tragic part- IT'S STILL GOING ON!!!!
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