From the towering steel giants of the early 1900s to the sleek, radar-guided behemoths of World War II, battleships were the ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era ...

Convinced that the USS Texas' long-term survival relies on getting it out of the water, the historic battleship's advocates are poised to launch a $75 million campaign to place it in dry dock. First, ...

If you like warships then you will have a fondness for battleships. It’s impossible not to. Their size, their lines, their ...

American battleships were a symbol of naval power for decades but became obsolete with the rise of missiles and other ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. developed and adhered to a nuclear deterrence strategy that was dependent upon a nuclear triad. The nuclear triad comprised methods for deploying nuclear weapons from air ...

The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...

Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...

One of Nevada’s most heralded World War II veterans who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor more than 80 years ago and saw the battleship guns blazing against the shores of Normandy died Sunday at his ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Seaforth / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2024. Pp. 224. Illus., diagr., tables, sources, biblio., index. $ 60.00. ISBN:1399059963 Mounting Britain’s ...