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Page 795 - Force, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps in overseas areas on attache or mission aircraft.
Page 95 - Defense, the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, we have a multitude of initiatives well underway to make our infrastructure more effective and less costly.
Page 594 - House is in session, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, and to require, by subpena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memorandums, papers, and documents as it deems necessary.
Page 59 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Housing Amendments of 1957".
Page 374 - The maintenance of modern nuclear laboratory facilities and programs in theoretical and exploratory nuclear technology which will attract, retain, and insure the continued application of our human •«eiitific resources to these programs on which continued progress in nuclear technology depends.
Page 732 - The Marine Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may bo essantial to the prosecution of a naval campaign.
Page 797 - The Chief of Naval Operations, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, is...
Page 173 - However, it seems reasonable to assume that in the case of the Soviet Union, the destruction of, say, one-fifth to one-fourth of its population and one-half to two-thirds of its industrial capacity would mean its elimination as a major power for many years. Such a level of destruction would certainly represent intolerable punishment to any industrialized nation and thus should serve as an effective deterrent to the deliberate initiation of a nuclear attack on the United States or its allies.
Page 406 - Department-wide activities include: the management and staff advisory functions of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the organization of the Joint Chiefs...
Page 172 - The strategic objectives of our general nuclear war forces are: 1. To deter a deliberate nuclear attack upon the United States and its allies by maintaining a clear and convincing capability to inflict unacceptable damage on an attacker, even were that attacker to strike first; 2. In the event such a war should nevertheless occur, to limit damage to our populations and industrial capacities. The first of these capabilities (required to deter potential aggressors) we call "Assured Destruction...