“The Greatest Deeds Are Yet to Be Done”

It is customary in commencement speeches to say something about the dynamic world that graduates are about to enter and how that change is going to affect their lives. But that traditional message does not work on this occasion, with this audience. You are graduating, but you are certainly not commencing. “To com- mence,” after all, is “to begin.” When you return to your fleet or to your units you will not be beginning a brand-new career. You will be going back to the noble profession to which you have chosen to dedicate your lives. But you will be going back enriched by what you have learned here and by what you will continue to learn with the tools that you have acquired here

Preserving Nuclear Peace

More than forty years ago, on 17 June 1942, President Roosevelt received a report from Vannevar Bush describing the possibilities of producing a nuclear weapon that could be employed decisively in combat. Under any of four possible methods, Bush told the President, such a weapon might be produced in time to influence the outcome of the ongoing war. The next day, President Roosevelt approved Bush\u27s report and the Army Engineer Corps was directed to create a new unit that has become familiar in history as the Manhattan Project

A Chance to Build on Taiwan's Progress

Taiwan is an incredible success story and it is time that the US, and the new President elect Barak Obama, take a lead in renewing relations with the country.Obama, US President, Taiwan, China, South-east Asia