Sentence:  During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment - and the bitterest irony - enforced and enforceable <WSD>only</WSD> by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon : 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  without any others being included or involved