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The article focuses on the reorganization of the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) under the presidency of Dwight David Eisenhower. The author provides an analysis on the performance of NSC under the administration of former president Harry S. Truman and identifies its weakness. Some of which is the informal nature of NSC proceedings during that time and that NSC had been always late in the policy-making process in matters concerning national security. But with the powerful tandem of Robert Cutler and Eisenhower, several significant changes occurred in the NSC. The NSC structure was strengthened and the Council mechanism was implemented for all major foreign and military policy-making.

The article reports on issues and topics related to the armed forces and defense industry in the U.S. The Defense Department announced a new draft and reserve plan designed to overcome inequalities in the method of recruiting men. The Office of Defense Mobilization plans to have trained skeleton staffs in some secret headquarters outside Washington. A Defense Department directive was issued to procurement officials to avoid concentrating orders in the plants of a few suppliers in order to insure a sound mobilization base by a broad geographical spread.

The article focuses on the civil defense proposals in the U.S. Accordingly, it should prove useful to discuss here the wide range of questions civil defense raises concerning our national strategy and the arms interaction process. Perhaps the most far-reaching consequence of a civil defense program might be to pile a civil defense race upon the arms interaction process and thus open up, as it were a new cold war front in an area in which there has been something approaching tacit agreement. There would be an increased risk inherent in adding this new dimension to the arms race. A substantial civil defense program would be inordinately tension heightening because it would involve large scale community action.

The article presents the perspective of the U.S. on the Western Alliance nuclear deterrent power. The explosion of a nuclear device by Frances had generated debate on the British capability to counter nuclear strike. Regarding the future of nuclear deterrence, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has planned to integrate Western deterrent power and disperse the power among members of the coalition. It can be seen that the difference of international perspectives and interests between the U.S. and European counties is an underlying factor which tend to weaken NATO. The author explains the different proposals for the solution of the problem encountered by NATO. He suggests that an allied deterrence would be the perfect solution to the dilemma that now confronts NATO.

The article discusses the possible consequences on the continuance of inventing nuclear weapons by the superpower nations. Each of this nation's aim focuses on national security. The system of thinking based on security through military dominance has been their core strategy in achieving world peace. However, this mode of analysis is becoming obsolete and is far more positively dangerous in that it will bring about catastrophic damages to the humanity. At a certain point, where tests of thermonuclear weapons in the Pacific and Siberia dramatized this transition. Understandably, accidents and misunderstandings are always a possibility should this misadventure continues, thus, the term stalemate.

The article discusses the development of political, military, and economic programs to improve the national security in Europe. The said programs are expected to make a significant change in the standards of living and to achieve a significant reduction in strategic and conventional armaments. The proposed measures should be properly balanced in each stage so that at no point could any state or group of states gain an important military and political advantage over the participants. In particular, the figures for arms reductions, reparations, and commercial credits are contributors in the military, political, and economic fields.

The article examines the peacetime defense preparations, plausible supplies and demands in the U.S. economy after a nuclear war. It says that although deterrence of general war is the primary goal of defense preparations, deterrence may fail in a variety of circumstances. To meet this residual risk of war, some insurance measures to ameliorate its consequences if it occurs are a sensible secondary goal. Moreover, many patterns of military action are conceivable which permit one to envisage a severely damaged postwar society, but with enough resources surviving to permit economic recovery over an extended period of time. Finally, individual industries might differ significantly in their contribution to economic recovery. The measure of importance is based on a comparison between estimated postwar supplies and estimated postwar demands for the products of some twenty individual manufacturing industries. In essence, the article explores the implications of using the ratios of prospective demand to prospective supply as a first approximation to postwar values.

The article reports on issues and topics concernng the national security in the U.S. The twelve members of the commission created by Congress to investigate the government's security and loyalty program were named on November 10, 1955. The Department of Justice said it would recommend to Congress the abolition of the present requirement that an employee must be suspended before a hearing on security charges. The Army announced two modifications in security procedures, including the examination of Ground Infiltrators entering the service before rather than after induction and the separation of information in intelligence files pertaining to general unsuitability and unrelated to loyalty or subversion during evaluation.

The article reports on policies and programs concerning the national security in the U.S. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) has reviewed the Classification of Nuclear Weapons. In a report prepared by the AEC, a complete review was being made in classifying the weapons field with the aim of the revising the basic policy. There are several factors prompting the review, including the widespread knowledge today of weapons technology, the information exchange with Britain approved by Congress, and the distribution of atomic weapons within the military forces with the consequent increase in the numbers of persons familiar with them.