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Newly Declassified Report Shows How Rickover Worked to Downplay Radiation Risk from USS Thresher Loss

Adm. Hyman Rickover

Recently released documents about the sinking of attack submarine USS Thresher (SSN-573) show the lengths the Navy took to assure the public that the incident wold not result in an environmental catastrophe.

The first director of Naval Reactors, Vice Adm. Hyman Rickover, worked to reassure the public and Congress that there was no danger of a nuclear explosion or a major radiation leak contaminating the seawater more than 200 miles off Cape Cod following the 1963 sinking of...

https://news.usni.org/2022/09/08/newly-declassified-report-shows-how-rickover-worked-to-downplay-radiation-risk-from-uss-thresher-loss

Navy Releases Latest Round of USS Thresher Inquiry Documents

The Navy released the ninth and tenth set of documents from a previously classified investigation into the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England.

A freedom of information lawsuit from retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former Thresher-class submarine commander, compelled the Navy to release the documents on a rolling basis.

The following is the seventh and eighth of 12 volumes of proceedings of the court of inquiry ordered by the commander of...

https://news.usni.org/2021/07/09/navy-releases-latest-round-of-uss-thresher-inquiry-documents

Navy Releases Eighth Round of USS Thresher Inquiry Documents

The Navy released the eighth set of documents from a previously classified investigation into the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England.

A freedom of information lawsuit from retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former Thresher-class submarine commander, compelled the Navy to release the documents on a rolling basis.

The following is the sixth of 12 volumes of proceedings of the court of inquiry ordered by the commander of the U.S. Atlantic...

https://news.usni.org/2021/04/29/navy-releases-eighth-round-of-uss-thresher-inquiry-documents

Navy Releases Seventh Round of USS Thresher Inquiry Documents

The Navy released the seventh set of documents from a previously classified investigation into the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England.

A freedom of information lawsuit from retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former Thresher-class submarine commander, compelled the Navy to release the documents on a rolling basis.

The following is the latest set of 12 volumes of proceedings of the court of inquiry ordered by the commander of the U.S....

https://news.usni.org/2021/04/14/navy-releases-fourth-round-of-uss-thresher-inquiry-documents-2

Panel: ‘Navy Has Done Itself a Major Favor’ in Releasing Thresher Investigation

USS Thresher (SSN-593) in 1961. US Navy History and Heritage Command photo

The rolling release of a previously secret report and investigation of the 1963 loss of USS Thresher (SSN-593), the Navy’s worst submarine disaster, is providing new lessons for today’s sailors and shipbuilders, said the former submarine commander who brought suit to declassify the documents.

Now that the documents are declassified, submarine safety instructors, “can take it home, read it and take it into the classroom,”...

https://news.usni.org/2021/03/15/panel-navy-has-done-itself-a-major-favor-in-releasing-thresher-investigation

The History of Sea-Based Airborne Antisubmarine Warfare: 1940-1977

The following is the unclassified 1978 three-volume history, Sea-Based Airborne Antisubmarine Warfare 1940-1977.

The so-called Cross report was declassified in 1990. A partial version of this report was published by USNI News last month as part of the rolling release of documents related to the 1963 loss of USS Thresher (SSN-593). 

From the report

Sea-based Airborne Antisubmarine Warfare came into being with the creation of the escort carrier in 1940. Initially conceived as an anti-air platform...

https://news.usni.org/2021/03/02/the-history-of-sea-based-airborne-antisubmarine-warfare-1940-1977

Navy Releases Latest Round of USS Thresher Documents

This week, the Navy released the fifth set of documents related to the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher (SSN-593) and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England.

A freedom of information lawsuit from retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former Thresher-class submarine commander, compelled the Navy to release the documents on a rolling basis.

The following is the fifth release from the Navy related to the FOIA suit. While the prior releases were proceedings of the 1964 court of inquiry...

https://news.usni.org/2021/02/04/navy-releases-latest-round-of-uss-thresher-documents

Navy Releases Fourth Round of USS Thresher Inquiry Documents

This week, the Navy released the fourth set of documents from a previously classified investigation into the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England.

A freedom of information lawsuit from retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former Thresher-class submarine commander, compelled the Navy to release the documents on a rolling basis.

The following is the fourth set of 12 volumes of proceedings of the court of inquiry ordered by the commander of the...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/23/navy-releases-fourth-round-of-uss-thresher-inquiry-documents

1963 USS Thresher Investigation: Rickover Testimony

This week, the Navy released the third set of documents from a previously classified investigation into the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England.

A freedom of information lawsuit from retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former Thresher-class submarine commander, compelled the Navy to release the documents on a rolling basis.

The following is the third set of 12 volumes of proceedings of the court of inquiry ordered by the commander of the...

https://news.usni.org/2020/11/25/1963-uss-thresher-investigation-rickover-testimony

Navy Releases Second Round of USS Thresher Documents

This week, the Navy released the second 300 pages of a previously classified investigation into the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England.
A freedom of information lawsuit from retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former Thresher-class submarine commander, compelled the Navy to release the documents on a rolling basis starting today.

The following is the second set of 12 volumes of proceedings of the court of inquiry ordered by the commander...

https://news.usni.org/2020/10/28/navy-releases-second-round-of-uss-thresher-documents

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