Exhibitions

Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War

April 12, 2000 – June 1, 2003

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

3rd Floor, East Wing, Armed Forces History Hall

See on Map Floor Plan

This exhibition reviews the early history of submarines and their radical transformation after World War II. It shows how submarines are built, how they work, and what they do. It also tells the story of submariners and their families, Americans on the front lines of the Cold War.