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Title Rickover : the birth of nuclear power [Hoopla electronic resource].

Publication Info. [United States] : PBS, 2015.
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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 120 min.)) : sd., col.
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Credits Directed by Michael Pack.
Cast Tim Blake Nelson (Rickover).
Performer Joan Allen, narrator.
Summary 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.
Audience Not rated.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Rickover, Hyman George.
United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
Admirals -- United States -- Biography.
Nuclear submarines -- United States -- History.
Nuclear warships -- United States -- History.
Genre Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Pack, Michael, screenwriter, producer, director.
Hausman, Michael, producer.
Allen, Joan, 1956- narrator.
Nelson, Tim Blake, actor.
Wiedenmayer, Joseph, editor.
Callanan, James, cinematographer.
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Music No. MWT11636885
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