Sentence examples for nuclear firepower from inspiring English sources
"Learn about U.S. nuclear firepower in the 60's," reads the first item, followed by a tidbit of newsreel on the subject.
The primary deterrent to war is the chilling notion of mutual assured destruction, which requires Washington and Moscow to maintain sufficient nuclear firepower to annihilate one another.
Khrushchev, his nation still behind in strategic nuclear firepower, tried to redress the balance by insinuating 42 medium-range missiles into Cuba, whence they could reach most of the continental United States.
We have enough nuclear firepower to destroy it many times over".
When Reagan announced the INF Treaty — which reduced American and Soviet nuclear firepower — a conservative lobbying group took out a full-page ad in newspapers across the country pairing a picture of Reagan with Chamberlain and Gorbachev with Hitler.
For the United States, with its overwhelming superiority in such firepower, nuclear weapons have lost all conceivable use except as a "deterrent" against a highly unlikely first-strike attack by an enemy power.
Cumulatively, the firepower of our nuclear arsenal is equivalent to 50,000 Hiroshima bombs.
As Barry Meier writes, in "Pain Killer," "In terms of narcotic firepower, OxyContin was a nuclear weapon".
While Israel might possess the nerve and existential motivation to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities, it probably lacks the firepower necessary to do the job properly.
Andreessen on how they'll use the money: "We raised the money to enable us to keep scaling given our accelerating growth (over 230,000 networks on Ning now, growing at over 1,000 per day) and to make sure we have plenty of firepower to survive the oncoming nuclear winter.
These factors alone would ensure that this was a moment of potential international crisis, but something else gives it a truly dangerous edge: a growing strategic reliance in Russia and elsewhere on the early use of nuclear weapons to overcome deficiencies in "conventional" firepower.
