In Dust Jacket, First Edition 1994, Black and White Plates, illustrations, maps, 374 Pages, Published By Weidenfeld and Nicholson London. A Near Fine Copy. 'In less than a century the submarine has matched or overtaken, outlasted or seen off the battleship, the aircraft carrier, the strategic bomber, even the landbased missile in its silo. With the end of the cold war the world is left with more than seven hundred submarines- four hundred and more which run on conventional diesel-electric power and nearly three hundred powered by nuclear energy, including scores armed with the nuclear ballistic missiles. While exploring the technological, political and diplomatic background to the development of the submarine, its weaponry and the strenuous efforts to contain and defeat it, the author also dwells on the timebomb left behind- nuclear radiation from Soviet boats lost in thousands of feet of water, the perils of nuclear-submarine graveyards and the disposal of nuclear waste they have generated'