Clyde W. Burleson – författare

Deep Challenge blends oil-patch history, eyewitness accounts of disasters, and open access to the official files of Global Marine Inc., the recognized leader in offshore drilling, to tell a true and exciting story.

In 1968 a Soviet G-class submarine mysteriously exploded and sank to the bottom of the Pacific. With Cold War secrecy and speed, U.S. military intelligence raced to find a way to raise the sub. In the new preface to this edition of The Jennifer Project, which was first published in 1977, author Clyde Burleson discusses some of the sources he could not reveal twenty years ago and provides an interesting swords-to-plowshares update.In one of the more remarkable episodes of high-tech espionage and engineering of the Cold War, the effort to raise the Soviet sub, code-named the "Jennifer Project," assembled a cast of players that included top military brass, the CIA, and the eccentric millionaire and inventor Howard Hughes.The Project was a monumental effort to create a tool that could reach three miles below the ocean's surface and pull the sub from primordial muck—in secret. Financed and built by Hughes and Global Marine under contract with the CIA, the ship created to pluck the sub from the ooze was a technological marvel. Two football fields in length and twenty-three stories high, the Hughes Glomar Explorer held in its hull a six-million-pound submersible "claw" for picking up sections of the submarine.The project cost the U.S. government hundreds of millions of dollars, but the intelligence community was betting that, if successful, reclamation of the Soviet submarine would mean accessing invaluable military knowledge as the two superpowers neared negotiations in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks. The Jennifer Project revisits a fascinating period of high-level intrigue and invention that has remained unknown to many Americans.

At the deep, dark bottom of the Pacific Ocean lies a sunken Soviet submarine. On board is equipment and information vital to both sides of the deadly arms race, and the U.S. has to qet it before it's too late.The U.S. Navy and the C.I.A. devise a bold plan to salvage the vessel secretly... in broad daylight. But failure or detection could spell doom...

A CHILLING CHRONICLE OF MAJOR NUCLEAR INCIDENTS AROUND THE GLOBE, SPANNING MORE THAN SIXTY YEARSOur atomic history spans more than sixty years—and most of it isn't pretty:March 1958: A U.S. Air Force B-47 accidentally drops an atomic bomb on the town of Mars Bluff, South Carolina.January 1978: The Russian spy satellite Cosmos 954, carrying a nuclear reactor, fails to attain orbit and falls back to earth.March 1979: A series of mishaps causes a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island to overheat.April 1986: The Russian Chernobyl-4 reactor explodes, releasing radioactive materials throughout the area.With compelling detail and eyewitness testimony, Clyde W. Burleson illustrates the human drama and the nuclear problem with fourteen incidents throughout the United States and abroad, and discusses just how much effort it takes to right the world when an accident occurs.Today, with gas prices skyrocketing, nuclear power is being billed as the savior to our energy crisis. In the United States, thirteen new reactors have been proposed and, worldwide, sixty-five are on order. This book calls our attention to the awe-inspiring power of nuclear energy when something goes wrong and outlines what individuals and nations must do to limit the damage from disasters that surely will occur.