By limiting American strength too much to nuclear strength, this country limited its ability to fight any kind of war besides a nuclear war.

Our military forces must be capable of contending successfully with any contingency which may be forced upon us, from limited emergencies to all-out nuclear general war.

Supporters of the withdrawal argued that it was a necessity in order to test and build a limited National Missile Defense to protect the United States from nuclear blackmail by a rogue state.

The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.

Sociologist Mary Bernstein writes: " For the lesbian and gay movement, then, cultural goals include ( but are not limited to ) challenging dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity, homophobia, and the primacy of the gendered heterosexual nuclear family ( heteronormativity ).

" And in 2007 Schneider emphasized the danger of serious climate changes from a limited nuclear war of the kind analyzed in the 2006 study above, saying " The sun is much stronger in the tropics than it is in mid-latitudes.

By agreement, British funding for research and development was limited to that required to modify the V bombers to take the missile, but the British were allowed to fit their own warheads and the Americans were given nuclear submarine basing facilities in Scotland.

The premise is that the United States / NATO and the Soviet Union / Warsaw Pact have fought a lengthy conventional war, followed by a ( limited ) nuclear war with all its consequences.

There are limited exchanges of battlefield nuclear weapons, and chemical and biological weapons.

The first, a limited nuclear war ( sometimes attack or exchange ), refers to a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by two ( or more ) belligerents.

Some Cold War strategists such as Henry Kissinger argue that a limited nuclear war could be possible between two heavily armed superpowers ( such as the United States and the Soviet Union ).

Some predict, however, that a limited war could potentially " escalate " into a full-scale nuclear war.

Others have called limited nuclear war " global nuclear holocaust in slow motion "-arguing that once such a war took place, others would be sure to follow over a period of decades, effectively rendering the planet uninhabitable in the same way that a " full-scale nuclear war " between superpowers would, only taking a much longer ( and arguably more agonizing ) path to the same result.

Either a limited or full-scale nuclear exchange could occur during an accidental nuclear war, in which the use of nuclear weapons is triggered unintentionally.

The Soviets believed that the Americans, with their limited nuclear arsenal, were unlikely to engage in any new world wars, while the Americans were not confident they could prevent a Soviet takeover of Europe, despite their atomic advantage.

A limited nuclear war erupts between the West and the East ; missiles strike Britain.

The simplest of nuclear thermal rockets, solid core reactors are limited by the melting point of the materials used in the reactor cores.

As with nuclear thermal rockets, the specific impulse achievable by these methods is limited by materials considerations, typically being in the range of 1000 – 2000 seconds.

But the Communists never gave sufficient provocation at any one time for the United States to want to risk a limited or an all-out war over Laos.

This is not a project for regaining the ground for limited war, by creating a monopoly in one power of the world's arsenal of unlimited weapons.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

As the war drew to a close, Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction for the South was in flux ; having believed the federal government had limited responsibility to the millions of freedmen.

After hard lessons early in the war, machine guns were mounted for use against infantry but the limited traverse of the mounting meant that they were still less effective than those used on turreted tanks.

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the effective range of personal weapons.

H P Wilmott has noted that deep battle contains two critical differences – it advocated the idea of total war, not limited operations and it also rejected the idea of the decisive battle in favour of several large scale and simultaneous offensives.

With no effective long-range weapon the original Blue Steel served on after a crash programme of minor modifications to permit a low-level launch at, even though its usefulness in a hot war was likely limited.

Bomber-launched variants of the V-1 saw limited operational service towards the end of the war.

It tells of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel by using a series of filmed photographs developed as a photomontage of varying pace, with limited narration and sound effects.

The 1979 Soviet invasion and ensuing civil war destroyed much of the country's limited infrastructure, and disrupted normal patterns of economic activity.

The German army was to be limited to 100, 000 officers and men ; the general staff was to be dissolved ; vast quantities of war material were to be handed over and the manufacture of munitions rigidly curtailed.

However, because of the localised and irregular character of the war, they were only able to exert limited control over local IRA commanders such as Tom Barry, Liam Lynch in Cork and Seán Mac Eoin in Longford.

The protracted war in Italy and the wars with the Persians themselves laid a heavy burden on the Empire's resources, and Justinian was criticized for curtailing the government-run post service, which he limited to only one eastern route of military importance.

After the war, the US deployed a small number of nuclear-armed cruise missiles in Germany, but these were considered to be of limited usefulness.

It first saw very limited action in the American Civil War ; it was subsequently improved and used in the Franco-Prussian war and North-West Rebellion.

The King exercises limited powers, including the right to declare a state of emergency in the event of war or armed revolt, with the advice and consent of the Council of Ministers and the Prime Minister.

Therefore, a much more limited war could have a much larger effect, because you are putting the smoke in the worst possible place.

And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;

There were two methods that could have been used for conducting the study within the resources available: ( 1 ) interviews in depth with a few selected companies, and ( 2 ) the more limited interrogation of a large number of companies by means of a mail questionnaire.

Of course, her benevolence was limited to those who could afford it, but then there is a limit to what one person can do.

To make a successful entry into the upper echelons of the Roman political hierarchy, Octavian could not rely on his limited funds.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

Proponents ( especially of majoritarianism ) deny these accusations, and argue that any faults in Athenian democracy were because the franchise was quite limited ( only male citizens could vote — women, slaves and non-citizens were excluded ).

Power generated by muscles, however, is limited by force – velocity relationship, and even at the optimal contraction speed for power production, total work done by the muscle will be less than half of what could be done if the muscle were contracting over the same distance at very slow speeds, resulting in less than 1 / 4 the projectile launch velocity possible without the limitations of the force – velocity relationship.

The practicality of balloons was limited because they could only be controlled vertically.

* Variable names were limited to two letters ; they could be made longer, but only the first two letters would be used.

However, even in eastern Saxony, the Ascanians could establish control only in limited areas, mostly near the River Elbe.

However, GSM base stations could only serve a limited area.

Previously in the United Kingdom, under the Companies Act 1985, protections for non-member stakeholders were considerably more limited ( see for example, s. 309 which permitted directors to take into account the interests of employees but which could only be enforced by the shareholders and not by the employees themselves ).

In addition, most of these printers were limited to monochrome printing in a single typeface at one time, although bolding and underlining of text could be done by " overstriking ", that is, printing two or more impressions in the same character position.

Lovecraft believed in a purposeless, mechanical, and uncaring universe that human beings, with their limited faculties, could never fully understand, and the cognitive dissonance caused by this leads to insanity.

Only laws and the decrees of the Senate or the People's assembly limited their powers, and only the veto of a fellow consul or a tribune of the plebs could supersede their decisions.

Initially limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some English Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant, a practice that carried on up until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010.

The Williams tube would prove more capacious than the Selectron tube ( the Selectron was limited to 256 bits, while the Williams tube could store thousands ) and less expensive.

During the classical Greek period cavalry were usually limited to those citizens who could afford expensive war-horses.

The death toll reached 101 in September, and the Selectmen, powerless to stop it, " severely limited the length of time funeral bells could toll.

They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total sail area.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

Even in balanced high performance designs, highly encoded and ( relatively ) high-level instructions could be complicated to decode and execute efficiently within a limited transistor budget.

Unlike the 1541, which was limited to GCR formatting, the 1571 could do both GCR and MFM disk formats.