Derrick Van Orden: “In 1951, Congress authorized the USS Nautilus, first nuclear…”

“And the one thing that we all agree on, Republicans and Democrats, is that it's broken. And let me just tell you how bad this has gotten. In 1951, Congress authorized the USS Nautilus, first nuclear powered submarine in the world. It was launched three years later. So from Congress saying build a nuclear submarine, three years later the hull went in the water and then in 1955 it was under the ice cap, right.” (01:20–01:32)

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