Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada - Hardcover

Stephen M. Younger is the president of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He previously served as president of National Security Technologies, LLC and director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. He has written extensively on national security, anthropology, and physics.

"There are several types of history books about ships. There are the technical histories.... There are operational histories... And then there are the social histories.... Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada combines elements of all three of these types of books about a ship, and does so in a very informative and extremely readable style.... Thoroughly recommended" --Wargaming Miscellany

"An excellent photographic record of Nevada's travels, travails and adventures.... The author has skillfully used them as the basis for a thoroughly good history of a very important ship." --Baird Maritime

"This is an important history of a battleship that moved the US Navy into the world of super-dreadnoughts and survived many times with service in both World Wars." --FIRE Reviews

"Skillfully using primary source documents including deck logs and war diaries, Younger as written a very readable book about a special warship and the thousands of Sailors who served in her throughout her three decades of service." --Naval Historical Foundation

"Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada is the true-life story of USS Nevada (BB 36), America's first modern battleship, first put to sea in 1912.... A bibliography, an index, and a wealth of historic black-and-white photographs supplement this well-researched, vividly described account, highly recommended especially for personal and public library Nautical History collections." --Midwest Book Review

"This is not only the story of a battleship that refused to die but also the story of the thousands of men who built her to outperform any other ship afloat of that time, who served on her and loved her. A story that you must read and will certainly enjoy! This is a great 320-page book with more than 150 unique photographs!" --Naval Analyses

"Silver State Dreadnought is an excellent book for those interested in naval history." --Strategy Page

"Author Younger does justice to the history of USS Nevada, the Navy's first modern battleship.... This handsome book features an outstanding selection of photos." --Seapower

"Silver State Dreadnought reminds readers of one of the forgotten veterans of World War II." --The Daily News

"Stephen Younger's Silver State Dreadnought is tightly-knit, well-paced coverage of the long career of the battleship USS Nevada. In covering the often tedious daily grind of peacetime gunnery practice and seamanship drills with the same detail as battle action, Younger gives the reader necessary insight into how a collection of men and steel becomes a warship." --Robert C. Stern, author of The Battleship Holiday: The Naval Treaties and Capital Ship Design