Back to Sanity

By Robert Strausz-Hupé
May 1958
In their own eyes, the American people have been always a race of bold innovators and mighty builders. Soviet scientific and technological “breakthroughs,” some reported and verified as well as ...

Significance of the Nautilus Polar Cruise

By Commander Robert D. McWethy, USN
May 1958
On October 28, 1957, the Navy Department released information that the USS Nautilus had taken part in:“… one of the most incredible adventures in naval history. Carrying a team of ...

The Uncertain Trumpet

By George Fielding Eliot
May 1958
There is nothing basically wrong with the military establishment, but it needs a greater voice in the policies, and a clearer idea of what the nation requires of it.

You Are An Ambassador

By Commander Charles F. Duggins, USNR
May 1958
There emerged from the destruction and chaos of World War II only two great powers—the United States and the Soviet Union. Practically all the major nations of the world are ...

Nuclear Power for the Navy

By Commander Craig Hosmer, USNR
May 1958
Fast becoming a reality is a powerful new nuclear-powered United States Navy—a navy backboned by atomic-bomb-carrying 85,000 ton super-carriers, fast striking guided-missile cruisers and destroyers, and specially designed submarines for ...

Balance Sheet

By Major Reginald Hargreaves, M. C.
May 1958
In politico-military matters it is not always easy to see the wood for the trees. Looming close, one particular aspect of the international scene, like an individual tree trunk in ...

NATO Summit Conference

By Captain H. H. Smith-Hutton, USN (Ret.)
May 1958
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting which was held in Paris last December was without doubt the most crucial meeting in the history of the eight-year-old alliance. This was emphasized ...

Comment and Discussion

May 1958
The Honda Point Disaster(See January, 1957 Proceedings)Captain Richard B. Loeb, USNR (Ret.)—In 1920 I returned from the meetings of the American Physical Society in Washington in the company of ...

Book Reviews

May 1958
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Professional Notes

May 1958
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