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The History of the US Nuclear Program
In 1955, the Navy awards this contract to Lockheed. The name of the project was Polaris. Just over four years later, after the contract is awarded in 1960, the very first US nuclear ballistic missile equipped submarine set sail on its patrol. And it was all built out of Silicon Valley with many subcontractors all over the place.