The Rickover Corpus

A digital archive of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover’s speeches and memos

Admiral Hyman Rickover, also known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy", built the first nuclear-powered submarine and civilian nuclear reactor.

As the U.S. returns once more to an era of shipbuilding and building nuclear energy infrastructure, understanding Rickover's management methods is of even greater importance.

This website is a searchable digital archive of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover’s speeches, congressional testimonies, and memos. It includes over 2,500 pages of documents, including over 1,800 pages of never before seen digitized artifacts from the U.S. Naval Academy Archives