Toward the end of his term McNamara also opposed an anti-ballistic missile ( ABM ) system proposed for installation in the U. S. in defense against Soviet missiles, arguing the $ 40 billion " in itself is not the problem ; the penetrability of the proposed shield is the problem.

East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.

The term warhead refers to the explosive material and detonator that is delivered by a missile, rocket, or torpedo.

The first had three gantries while the second had three above ground coffin launchers ( The term " coffin launcher " is used because the missile was laid on its side horizontally with the enclosure door or coffin-lid situated above.

In the short term it was planned to use some sort of proximity fuze while flying the missile through the bomber stream.

The term applies both to ballistic missile submarines in general ( for instance " British SNLE " occurs ) and, more technically, as a specific classification of the Redoutable class.

The missile ’ s seeker head homes in on the infrared ( heat ) signature from the target ’ s engines ( hence the term “ heat-seeking missile ”),

The more modern term theater ballistic missile encompasses IRBMs, MRBMs and SRBMs, including any ballistic missile with a range under.

National missile defense ( NMD ) is a generic term for a type of missile defense intended to shield an entire country against incoming missiles, such as intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBMs ) or other ballistic missiles.

The term " national missile defense " has several meanings:

' Heater ' Heatley ( A reference to the slang term for an AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seeking air-to-air missile )

Weapon systems that fall into this category include the shoulder-launched missile weapon, the wider international term for any weapon that fires a rocket-propelled projectile at a target, yet is small enough to be carried by a single person, and fired while held on one's shoulder.

During his second two-year term as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( 1955 – 57 ), Admiral Radford was instrumental in establishing the Navy's program of Polaris missile nuclear submarines, which required the development of all of these: the ballistic missiles, the new ballistic missile submarines to carry 16 apiece of them, and the appropriate thermonuclear warheads for them.

The missile gap debate lasted throughout the rest of Eisenhower's term and became a prominent issue in the presidential campaign of 1960.

Fire-and-forget is a term for a type of missile guidance which does not require further guidance after launch such as illumination of the target or wire guidance, and can hit its target without the launcher being in line-of-sight of the target.

The term beyond-visual-range missile ( BVR ) usually refers to an air-to-air missile ( BVRAAM ) that is capable of engaging at ranges beyond.

With the advent of missile-equipped warships, the term missile " magazine " has also been applied to the storage area for guided missiles on the ship, usually carried below the main decks of the warships.

Some alternate terms for this missile have included the spear, but this term has fallen out of favour since in all other uses, spears are stiff enough to be used for stabbing.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

The term aweigh describes an anchor when it is hanging on the rode and is not resting on the bottom.

Alexander's term, " debauched sensory appreciation " describes how the repetition of a circumstance encourages habit design as a person adapts to circumstances or builds skills.

Atomic Semantics is a term which describes the guarantees provided by a data register shared by several processors in a parallel machine or in a network of computers working together.

Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.

The term was coined by Fanya Montalvo by analogy with NP-complete and NP-hard in complexity theory, which formally describes the most famous class of difficult problems.

The term also accurately describes the condition of the baseball itself.

The Latin term ultra vires describes activities of officials within an organization or polity that fall outside the constitutional or statutory authority of those officials.

The term also describes films that have remained popular over a long period of time amongst a small group of followers.

The term " instant celebrity " describes someone who becomes a celebrity in a very short period of time.

However in Daoism it refers more often to a meta-physical term that describes a force that encompasses the entire universe but which cannot be described nor felt.

The term cretin describes a person so affected, but, as with words such as spastic, idiot and lunatic, also is a word of abuse.

The term " congregationalist polity " describes a form of church governance that is based on the local congregation.

In philosophy, the term critical theory describes the neo-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, developed in Europe in the 1930s, that engaged the works of intellectuals such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

The term medical condition is used as a synonym for medical state, where it describes a patient's current state, as seen from a medical standpoint.

Arne Garborg describes land-draugar coming fresh from the graveyards, and the term draug is even used of vampires.

The term is a modern word that describes the portrayal of the human anatomy and sexuality with high-art aspirations, differentiating such work from commercial pornography.

The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.

Although the term describes events as impinging on England, from the outset the conflicts involved wars with and civil wars within both Scotland and Ireland ; see Wars of the Three Kingdoms for an overview.

In thermodynamics, the term exothermic (" outside heating ") describes a process or reaction that releases energy from the system, usually in the form of heat, but also in the form of light ( e. g. a spark, flame, or explosion ), electricity ( e. g. a battery ), or sound ( e. g. burning hydrogen ).

Environmental skepticism is an umbrella term that describes those that argue that particular claims put forward by environmentalists and environmental scientists who support the first are false or exaggerated, along with those who are critical of environmentalism in general.

The distinction between the two is subtle: " higher-order " describes a mathematical concept of functions that operate on other functions, while " first-class " is a computer science term that describes programming language entities that have no restriction on their use ( thus first-class functions can appear anywhere in the program that other first-class entities like numbers can, including as arguments to other functions and as their return values ).