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SSGN: Payload Unlimited
Joe Buff | January 17, 2006
retirement be converted to SSGNs, and not scrapped. That would double the size of this potent and formidable element of the U.S. Navy's Submarine Force, genuine capital ships of the post-Cold War world.

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About Joe Buff

A former partner in a top-10 global management consulting firm, Joe Buff is a seasoned risk analyst and professional writer on national security and defense preparedness. Three of his non-fiction articles received annual literary awards from the Naval Submarine League.

He is also a national best-selling author of tales of near-future warfare featuring nuclear submariners and special operations forces in action at their bravest and best.  His latest novel, his sixth, Seas of Crisis, won the 2006 Admiral Nimitz Award for Outstanding Naval Fiction from the Military Writers Society of America.

Joe holds a master's degree in math from MIT, earned under a National Science Foundation Fellowship. He worked as an intern at the Argonne National Laboratory. Previously a qualified actuary for twenty years, with extensive experience at interpreting policy implications of dire "what if" scenarios, he is now a member of the Society for Risk Analysis, a non-partisan international scholarly body headquartered in McLean, VA.


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Joe Buff Books:
Seas of Crisis
Straits of Power
Tidal Rip
Crush Depth
Thunder in the Deep
Deep Sound Channel

Straits of Power
Straits of Power
Seas of Crisis
Seas of Crisis