What You Need to Know: The USS Halibut (SSGN-587) was a unique Cold War-era U.S. Navy submarine designed initially as a nuclear-guided missile sub but later modified for deep-sea espionage.

What You Need to Know: The USS Halibut (SSGN-587) was a revolutionary nuclear-powered guided missile submarine, commissioned in 1960. Initially designed to launch nuclear cruise missiles ...

Just the second U.S. Navy vessel to be named after the halibut species of fish, SSN-587, or USS Halibut, has the distinction of earning two presidential citations, two Navy Unit Commendations ...

At the beginning of the 1970s, divers from the specially equipped submarine, USS Halibut (SSN 587), left their decompression chamber to start a bold and dangerous mission, codenamed "Ivy Bells." ...

Wikimedia Commons USS Halibut launching a Regulus cruise missile. The overwhelming firepower of nuclear weapons against naval forces, demonstrated at Bikini Atoll in 1946, prompted the Navy to ...

This was Operation Ivy Bells. U.S. Navy / Darryl L. Baker Shipyard model of the USS Halibut (SSGN-587), Nov. 18, 1957. Down below the sea surface, the intel is flooding in. With the divers' taps ...

The U.S. government began tapping those cables at least 44 years ago when the American submarine USS Halibut found and spied on a Soviet telecom cable. In 2004, the U.S. Navy launched the USS ...

These varying pieces of technology came together in the form of the USS Halibut, a nuclear-powered submarine that carried up to five Regulus missiles. The missiles themselves were limited to a ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — John Long of Salem, Ore., had a presidential unit citation. His submarine, the USS Halibut, even had its Cold War exploits immortalized in the book ‘Blind Man’s Bluff’.

Burt’s submarine experiences included serving on USS Halibut, SSN 587. He was part of the crew whose exploits were described in the book, Blind Man’s Bluff, published in 1998. His only ...