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Soviet and conventional
The Soviet Union will fight neither a conventional nor a nuclear war over Berlin, and neither will its Warsaw Pact allies.
At first a conventional member of the international Communist movement, the CPC broke with its counterpart in the Soviet Union over ideological differences in the 1960s.
His New Look policy of nuclear deterrence gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing the funding for conventional military forces ; the goal was to keep pressure on the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits.
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.
Presumably, the United States hoped atomic weapons could offset the Soviet Union's larger conventional ground forces in Eastern Europe, and possibly be used to pressure Soviet leader Joseph Stalin into making concessions.
During the Cold War, it was presumed to be an invasion route for any conventional war between NATO and Soviet forces.
Swedes hoped that the U. S. would use conventional and nuclear weapons in case of a Soviet attack on Sweden.
The official nuclear policy of the United States was one of " massive retaliation ", as coined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, which called for massive attack against the Soviet Union if they were to invade Europe, regardless of whether it was a conventional or a nuclear attack.
In the event of a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe, NATO planned to use tactical nuclear weapons.
Russian refusal to accept invitations to participate in NATO BMD may be indicative of the lack of an alternative to MAD in current Russian war fighting strategy due to dilapidation of conventional forces after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
At the time, in the West the euphemism " strategic weapons " was used to refer to the American nuclear arsenal, which was presented as a necessary deterrent against nuclear or conventional attack from the Soviet Union ( see Mutual Assured Destruction ).
Rather than making extensive preparations for battlefield nuclear combat in Central Europe, the Soviet General Staff emphasized conventional military operations and believing that they had an advantage there.
" The Soviet military leadership believed that conventional superiority provided the Warsaw Pact with the means to approximate the effects of nuclear weapons and achieve victory in Europe without resort to those weapons.
A 7. 62x39mm M43 calibre experimental assault rifle was developed by German A. Korobov in the Soviet Union around 1945, and a further development, the TKB-408 was entered for the 1946 – 47 assault rifle trials by the Soviet Army, although it was rejected in favour of the more conventional AK-47.
Some observers believe that the Vietnam War was a necessary attritive component to this warSoviet industrial capacity was diverted to conventional arms in North Vietnam, rather than development of new weapons and nuclear weapons — but evidence would need to be found that the then-current administration of the US saw it thus.
Known as Battle of Jalalabad, it was intended to gain a conventional victory on Soviet Union after Soviet Union had withdrawn its troops.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the MOD does not foresee any short-term conventional military threat ; rather, it has identified weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, and failed and failing states as the overriding threats to the UK's interests.
The moderates believed that the economic viability of North Vietnam should come before support of a massive and conventional southern war and who generally followed the Soviet line of peaceful coexistence by reunifying Vietnam through political means.
Moscow, on the other hand, advocated negotiations, but simultaneously armed Hanoi's forces to conduct a conventional war on the Soviet model.

Soviet and superiority
I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.
In November 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president after a campaign that promised American superiority over the Soviet Union in the fields of space exploration and missile defense.
By winning operationally, strategically it could not keep up the momentum as the superiority of the Soviet Union's industrial base and economy began to take effect.
There was in fact, a moral difference between the Soviet Union and the United States, and that policy arising in defense of the " moral superiority " of the US could not and can not be " immoral.
Concerned about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet superiority regarding missiles in Central Europe, Schmidt issued proposals resulting in the NATO Double-Track Decision concerning the deployment of medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe should the Soviets not disarm.
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the leadership of the Soviet Union feared the United States would use its nuclear superiority to its advantage, as from 1945 – 1948 the U. S. was the only state possessing nuclear weapons.
During the war the valley surrounding the western end of the river also became the focal point of a series of dogfights for air superiority over North Korea, earning the nickname " MiG Alley " in reference to the MiG-15 fighters flown by the combined North Korean, Chinese and Soviet forces.
NATO plans for war with the USSR called for the use of tactical nuclear weapons in order to counter Soviet numerical superiority.
His manager, Nicolai Koloff ( Michael Pataki ), takes every opportunity to promote Drago's athleticism as a hallmark of Soviet superiority.
Beginning the war as a medium bomber it supported the German campaigns in the field until 1943 when, owing to Western Allied and Soviet air superiority, it reverted to a transport aircraft role.
When this order was cancelled in February 1979 because of the Iranian Revolution, the British government, under pressure to modernise its tank fleet to maintain a qualitative superiority relative to the Soviet tank forces, decided to use the sudden surplus production capacity to procure a number of vehicles very close in design to the Shir-2, called the Challenger 1.
* In the Spanish Civil War, the Republicans have the technological and numerical superiority in the air, with about 450 aircraft, including 150 Soviet and 50 other fighters and 60 Soviet and 40 other bombers ; they have lost about 150 aircraft since the war began in July 1936.
The FiAF's main mission was to achieve air superiority over Finland and prevent Soviet air power from reinforcing their front lines.
However, as a result of their over-extension and the casualties they had taken during their offensive, at the beginning of Manstein's counterattack the Germans could achieve a tactical superiority in numbers, including the number of tanks present — for example, Manstein's 350 tanks outnumbered Soviet armor almost seven to one at the point of contact.
The 1st Panzer Army was ordered to drive north in an attempt to cut off and destroy Popov's Mobile Group, using accurate intelligence on Soviet strength which allowed the Germans to pick and choose their engagements and bring about tactical numerical superiority.
In 1957, SACEUR General Lauris Norstad, USAF, noting the numerical superiority of Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces over NATO ground forces, called for " about 30 divisions ” to augment NATO ’ s central European front.
Adopted in the US as a response to the challenge of early Soviet technical superiority in space, it began to be challenged in the late 1960s.
The ISU-152's 90 mm of sloped frontal armor, in contrast to the SU-152's 65 mm, provided excellent frontal protection from the 75mm KwK 40 gun of the ubiquitous Panzer IV and StuG family at all but the closest ranges, while also forcing the original Tiger I, with its vaunted 88mm KwK 36 gun, to close to medium ranges in order to successfully penetrate the vehicle, negating its traditional long range superiority and exposing more of its vulnerable flanks to the 85mm ZiS-S gun of the Soviet T-34-85.
For three days the outcome of the battle hung in the balance, but the Soviet ' numerical superiority proved decisive and by 7 July Polish forces were in full retreat along the entire front.

Soviet and shown
Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.
The Soviet Union is shown to have commenced a military buildup in East Germany with the goal of intimidating the United States into withdrawing from West Berlin.
The first salvo of the Soviet nuclear attack on the central United States ( as shown from the point of view of the residents of Kansas and western Missouri ) occurs at 3: 38 p. m. Central Daylight Time when a large-yield nuclear weapon is air burst at a high altitude over Kansas City, Missouri, in order to generate an electromagnetic pulse and disable any defensive weapons covering the nearby Minuteman III missile silos of Whiteman AFB.
The film also had impact outside the U. S. In 1987, during the era of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, the film was shown on Soviet television.
The film is rumoured to have originally been 4 hours long and shown in the Soviet Union.
More than 100 Russian Soyuz ( spacecraft ) | Soyuz manned spacecraft ( TMA version shown ) have flown since 1967, originally for a Soviet manned lunar programs | Soviet manned lunar program, but currently supporting the International Space Station.
After its premiere in the Soviet Union, Potemkin was shown in the United States.
The Voyage Home was the first Star Trek film shown in the Soviet Union, screened by the World Wildlife Fund on June 26, 1987, in Moscow to celebrate a ban on whaling.
Along with her participation in Farm Aid and Amnesty International concerts, Raitt traveled to Moscow in 1987 to participate in the first joint Soviet / American Peace Concert, later shown on the Showtime television network.
Only in Stalin's Soviet Union, where Socialist Realism was the mandatory style, had a state shown such concern with regulation of the arts.
From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life.
The United States ' sphere of influence during the Cold War is shown in light green, the Soviet Union's sphere of influence is shown in light orange.
The boundaries of the now-independent former Soviet republics are anachronistically shown.
The territories east of the Oder-Neisse line, under Polish and Soviet administration / annexation, are shown as white as is the likewise detached Saar ( protectorate ) | Saar protectorate.
First generation straight-winged F-80C Shooting Star and F-84E / G Thunderjet jet aircraft were shown inadequate against the Soviet MiG-15s.
* The movie being shown to American prisoners at the Soviet camp near Calumet is Alexander Nevsky ( 1938 ), Sergei Eisenstein's Soviet anti-Nazi film.
Former eastern territories of Germany | Pre-war German territory east of the Oder-Neisse line is shown in Gray, as it was assigned / annexed to Poland and the Soviet Union.
Declassified archives have shown that he was a Soviet agent.
The authorities claimed that he had confessed to the charges and recanted his beliefs ; a film clip was shown on Soviet television to substantiate their claim.

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