Maybe because Hyman Rickover wasn’t really the genius and visionary that’s been described to us?
I don’t think that was it.
Military’s all over the world, not just the US, do not like their failures rehashed.
Like Custer........................
“Maybe because Hyman Rickover wasn’t really the genius and visionary that’s been described to us?”
A really STUPID post!
Thresher and Scorpion were built to a ‘better, faster, cheaper’ spec over Rickover’s objections, which almost got him cashiered from the Navy. It has long been rumored that after the Thresher incident, the price of Rickover getting his way and SUBSAFE through was his not objecting to the deep classification of the report, which would have torpedoed *many* Navy brass careers. I will be looking forward to reading it.
I was told by a nuclear engineer about twenty years ago that the computer shut down the reactor/engine because it sensed a malfunction and the crew could not override the computer code.
BS!
Rickover had many traits, some of them not very pleasant, but he would have been the first to say that being pleasant wasn't his job. Rickover was only responsible for the nuclear power plant, the rest of the submarine's design and construction was the responsibility of other navy groups and the shipyard. In fact, after the Thresher was lost, elements of Rickover's QA program were incorporated into the SUBSAFE program.