It cannot become the source of a real Atlantic community if it remains organized to deal only with the military threat which first brought it into being ''.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

The first was that America had become -- or was in danger of becoming -- a second-rate military power.

One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.

Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.

For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.

* 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

The modern history of Abensberg, which is often incorrectly compared with that of the 3rd century Roman castra ( military outpost ) of Abusina, begins with Gebhard, who was the first to mention Abensberg as a town, in the middle of the 12th century.

The fourth encounter is with Micaiah, the prophet who, when asked for advice on a military campaign, first assures Ahab he will be successful and ultimately gives Ahab a glimpse into God's plan for Ahab to die in battle ( 1 Kings 22 ).

She was the first Roman woman of the Roman Empire to have traveled with her husband to Roman military campaigns ; to support and live with the Roman Legions.

Sargon is even recorded as having organised naval expeditions to Dilmun ( Bahrein ) and Magan, amongst the first organised military naval expeditions in history.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.

The Almoravids ' first military leader, Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni, gave them a good military organization.

According to Gildas, Ambrosius organised the survivors into an armed force and achieved the first military victory over the Saxon invaders.

As his first attempt, Andriskos travelled to Syria to request military help from Demetrius Soter of Syria.

Florey and Chain succeeded in purifying the first penicillin, penicillin G procaine in 1942, but it did not become widely available outside Allied military before 1945.

When it was first adopted by the U. S. military, a Honeywell engineer sat in the back seat with bolt cutters to disconnect the autopilot in case of emergency.

The Assyrian Levies were founded by the British in 1928, with ancient Assyrian military rankings such as Rab-shakeh, Rab-talia and Tartan, being revived for the first time in millennia for this force.

The first IFV was the Soviet BMP-1, which surprised western intelligence analysts when it appeared in a military parade in 1967.

During the first 20 years of his rule, Abd ar-Rahman avoided military action against the northern Christian kingdoms, Asturias and Navarre.

One of Ahmad Shah's first military action was the capture Ghazni from the Ghilzais, and then wresting Kabul from the local ruler.

* War of Canudos ( 1893 – 1897 ): The deadliest rebellion of Brazil, the insurrectionists defeated the first 3 military forces sent to quell the rebellion.

-- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today.

It has a hull patterned on that of the United States navy's Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine.

It was first tried out on a conventional submarine, the Albacore, in 1954.

* 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

* 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U. S. submarine sunk in accident.

* 1960 – The U. S. Navy submarine completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

In 2010, a team of scientists led by the University of Leeds used a robotic " yellow submarine " to observe detailed flows within an " undersea river " for the very first time.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

* 1917 – World War I: is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine.

* 1904: The French built the first diesel submarine, the Z.

The first submarine casualty to a destroyer was the German, rammed by on 29 October 1914.

* 1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the.

* 1960 – The U. S. Navy submarine begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

The first submarine telegraph cable started its operation in Gibraltar in 1870.

The first patrol of a Trident-armed submarine occurred in 1994, although the US base was closed at the end of the Cold War.

The plan failed as the Greek ships quickly broke contact, while at the same time the Mecidiye came under attack by the Greek submarine Delfin, which launched a torpedo against it but missed ; the first such attack in history.

* was the UK's first nuclear-powered submarine, launched in 1960 and decommissioned in 1980.

It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.

* 1960 – a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.

The first submarine, U-1 was delivered in December 1906, built by Krupp's Germania yard in Kiel.

The first submarine had 238 ton displacement on the surface and 283 tons submerged.

Construction began in 1910 of the first submarine powered by twin diesel engines.

U-19 was twice the size of the first German submarine, had five times the range at 7, 600 sm cruising at 8 knots, or 15 knots maximum.