Rickover: the Birth of Nuclear Power

Producer, Writer & Director: Michael Pack

Cinematographer: James Callanan

Admiral Rickover: Tim Blake Nelson


Combative, provocative and searingly blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero.  When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harness the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, whose trip under the polar ice pack was one of the great adventure stories of the 1950's.  Later, Rickover built the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier and the first commercial nuclear power plant at Shippingport, PA.