The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. These project pages should be considered historical.
On July 20, 1960, the Navy conducted the first successful full-scale test of the Polaris weapons system, launching two Polaris A-1 SLBMs from the submerged USS George Washington about 30 miles (48 kilometers) off of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Credit: U.S. Navy