They went off to auto parts stores and service stations to buy as much of Bar's Leaks as they could find. Anderson had his crew dress in civilian clothes and pile into taxi cabs in Seattle. To keep anyone outside the boat from getting wise to the problem, Cmdr. Note: the service station man is not qualified to work on a nuclear powered submarine. Somewhere along the way, however, someone aboard the sub figured out they could just use Bar's Leaks, a popular automotive product for leaking radiators, on the condenser unit. William Anderson, Nautilus' captain, also couldn't call attention to the issue through the usual channels due to security concerns. You can't just send a bunch of sailors out to any old auto parts store to get materials to repair your new, game-changing nuclear submarine. It arrived in Everett to a lot of fanfare from civilians and journalists, but the vessel had a problem: A condenser unit was leaking and threatened the entire mission. When the submarine arrived in Everett, Washington, on June 2, 1958, it was scheduled to stay the night, then head for Seattle for another night before departing on its secret mission. The range of Nautilus changed the Cold War game under the Arctic Ocean, but someone had to make the first trip.
Operation Sunshine was supposed to be a display of advanced American technology. Eisenhower wanted to reassure the military (and potentially the American public) that a submarine-based missile deterrent would maintain the nuclear balance of power. In the wake of the Soviet Union's Sputnik launch, President Dwight D.
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