Norman Polmar
American naval analyst and author, a widely cited voice in defense-press coverage of Soviet and US naval forces from the 1970s onward.
Matters to this vault as an on-the-record skeptic embedded in the same 1987 press coverage that made the Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal a household case: the Christian Science Monitor quotes him arguing that Toshiba's machines — not fully installed and tested until fall 1984 — came too late to explain the quieting already evident in the already-launched Soviet Sierra- and Akula-class submarines, a direct, named challenge to a causal story several louder figures in the scandal treated as settled.
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