Word: nautiluses
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...national nuclear weapons," even refused some French requests for non-nuclear items that might be used in the delivery of nuclear weapons, e.g., navigational systems for aircraft. Last week De Gaulle achieved something of a breakthrough when Washington announced that it would sell France a nuclear submarine of the Nautilus type...
...Washington line, it is not really a turnabout. President Eisenhower first promised the sub to the French four years ago (the offer ran into congressional opposition). Furthermore, the sale price of $63 million will help in a small way to stem the gold flow from the U.S., and Nautilus subs are, in any event, merely powered by nuclear engines and not rocket-bearing, as is the Polaris. Still, the sale suggested that the U.S. is beginning to come round to De Gaulle's view that France must be a nuclear power and as such must have a stronger hand...
...putting NATO in disarray, De Gaulle can now answer that if the U.S. were really quarreling with France, it would not be selling her a nuclear-powered sub. To Frenchmen and other Europeans who have opposed de Gaulle's independent nuclear force, he can cite the Nautilus sale as proof that even the U.S. accepts France as a nuclear power...
...pirate ship blows up and sinks. How come? Moments later, a weird figure comes gliding through the surf. It's a fish. It's a sub. It's-Captain Nemo! And just where has Captain Nemo been hiding all this time? In his submarine, the Nautilus. And where is the Nautilus? In a volcano. Any further questions...
...AUTONETICS, whose 1961 sales of $410 million place it among the nation's top ten electronics companies. Its specialty: inertial-navigation systems, one of which steered the nuclear submarines Nautilus and Skate under the polar icecap...