Rickover: the birth of nuclear power
(2015, original release: 2014)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : PBS : Made available through hoopla, 2015
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 video file (ca. 120 min.)) : sd., col
ISBN/ISSN
MWT11636885, 11636885
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Directed by Michael Pack
Tim Blake Nelson (Rickover)
Joan Allen, narrator
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom, ultimately transforming the Navy and changing the course of America's technological development. As questions about nuclear power have arisen in the wake of the disaster in Japan, RICKOVER considers the story of the man who started it all: Hyman G. Rickover
Not rated
Mode of access: World Wide Web