ABSTRACT
It is now precisely thirty years since Eisenhower's illustrious address—December 8, 1953. It is, I believe, noteworthy that it was delivered within a day of the twelfth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. That brooding sense of the possibility of surprise attack, which one notes as a major theme in that speech, reflects what has been a dominant concern in both the American psyche and American public policy since Pearl Harbor.
