For an overview of the nuclear submarine and its people:
Gillcrist, Dan, Power Shift: The Transition to Nuclear Power in the U.S. Submarine Force As Told by Those Who Did It, iUniverse, Lincoln, NE (2006)
Rockwell, Theodore, The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference, iUniverse, Lincoln, NE (2002)
For some of what was done:
Sontag, Sherry, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew, Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, Public Affairs, New York (1998)
Weir, Gary E. and Walter J. Boyne, Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War, Basic Books, New York (2003)
On the technical side:
Friedman, Norman, Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD (1989)
Friedman, Norman, and James L. Christley, U.S. Submarines Since 1945: An Illustrated Design History, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD (1994)
Polmar, Norman, and K. J. Moore, Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945–2001, Brassey’s, Washington, DC (2004)
Navy SEALs conduct a fast-rope exercise from the cargo door of an HH-60 “Seahawk” assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Seven on the hull of the fast attack submarine USS Hampton in August 1998.