Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah.

That was the claim for the NS Savannah, a nuclear-powered cruise ship born out of President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” initiative. The ship was a joint project of several government ...

That was the claim for the NS Savannah, a nuclear-powered cruise ship born out of President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” initiative. The ship was a joint project of several government ...

Initiated after his Atoms for Peace speech in 1953, the NS Savannah was the first civilian merchant ship powered by a nuclear propulsion system. President Eisenhower hoped the NS Savannah could ...

It didn't quite work out like that. Sleek in shape, painted red and white, its interior decorated in what was then ultra-modern chrome, the NS Savannah wasn't quite like any other cargo ship.