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USS George Washington

A dark, sleek submarine with visible missile tubes and a streamlined hull is depicted against a deep blue background, symbolizing its role as a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.

The USS George Washington was the United States Navy's first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. Commissioned in 1959, it required absolute navigational precision to launch missiles from submerged, undetectable positions. It achieved this using an early Ship's Inertial Navigation System derived from Charles Stark Draper's pioneering aerospace research.

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