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When all the facts on military power are in, the President said at his press conference, the public will feel a "lot better." And I think you will, too, when you have read "The Admiral and the Atom...
...Start in "Siberia." In terms of the new, atomic-age thinking, the Navy's revolution reached its most dramatic stage with Nautilus. After World War II and a brilliant and imaginative performance on the sea and in the air, the Navy turned slowly to the military potential of the atom. While the Air Force and its Strategic Air Command took over an urgent proprietorship in the atomic age, the Navy fought stoutly to preserve its great fleet, to keep a maximum of ships at sea. It fought the Air Force concept of long-range nuclear retaliation as immoral...
...began looking for a replacement for retiring Admiral Robert Carney as Chief of Naval Operations. Thomas was keenly aware of the nuclear revolution and deeply concerned about the Navy's failure to grasp its full significance. Thomas wanted a man with the vision and drive required by the atom. He wanted someone who understood naval aviation. But most of all he wanted a man that the Navy would be glad to follow into its tomorrow. This had to be one of the old Navy's own, a sailor's sailor who had fought the professional Navy...
...Liberation Day, in the Communist lingo of East Berlin-and the town was tricked up with solemn-sloganed streamers. "Forward to Peace, Socialism and Understanding Between Peoples" fluttered from the Institute for Planned Economy. "Forward, Not to the Atom Bomb, But to Peace" waved in the breeze over Stalin Allee.* Few stopped to read. Small boys careered through the streets on their bicycles. Crowds surged along the sidewalks searching for vantage points. Any minute the "Peace Race" bicycle riders would pump into view. Any lap of the 1,330-mile grind from Warsaw to Berlin to Prague, Iron Curtain counterpart...
Temporarily sprung from the Lewisburg, Pa. federal pen to testify before the Senate's Internal Security subcommittee, Atom Spies Harry Gold (doing a 30-year stretch) and David Greenglass (15 years) provided some intriguing marginal notes to the history of U.S. treason. Admitting that the Russians had done "a superb psychological job" on him, onetime Philadelphia Chemist Gold, 45, drew snickers in the Washington hearing room when he debunked the "trash" written to explain why he turned traitor. Said he of one theory: "I haven't been uniformly successful in love, but I didn't get into...