the type of gun, and the best formation in which to fight a naval action. The battleship of the future will be of great size; displacement will be not less than 20,000 tons; and this will increase ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. developed and adhered to a nuclear deterrence strategy that was dependent upon a nuclear triad. The nuclear triad comprised methods for deploying nuclear weapons ...

battleships featured a mix of large and small guns, reflecting naval tactics that emphasized high rates of fire at short ...

During the Cold War, battleships were thought to have become obsolete due to the new king of the seas: the aircraft carrier.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.