Key Points – The USS Long Beach (CGN-9), commissioned in 1961, was the US Navy’s first nuclear-powered surface warship and the world’s first nuclear-powered cruiser. -Its two reactors gave ...

One advance was USS Long Beach (CGN-9). Commissioned on September 9, 1961, Long Beach was the world’s first nuclear-powered surface combatant, marking a great evolution in naval warfare ...

USS Long Beach: The Cruiser That Changed Naval Warfare Forever Most naval history buffs can tell you that the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine ...

Although the USS Long Beach was designed as an “all missile” ship from the start, she was also constructed with two gun mounts amidships at President John F. Kenney’s order.

The world's first nuclear-powered surface warship, the USS Long Beach, was put up for auction as scrap metal on Tuesday to be dismantled and recycled, after spending the past 17 years mothballed ...