nuke

Thank whatever god responsible that never happened, because the devastation of dropping just one nuke would be so horrendous that we can barely comprehend it.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

Anything short of that is merely kicking the nuke down the road.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Stopping the nuke would give them more time to gather intelligence, but we learn there’s only a 61% chance of intercepting it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

You may have said things you regret, and rather than look through your posts with a fine-toothed comb, you nuke everything in the name of reputation preservation.

From Slate ● May 7, 2024

There was a problem with the turkey—not enough time to nuke both packages—but one would serve.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

I just interviewed John Mecklin, editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and we talked about existential risks, including nukes.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

“There’s I believe a growing appreciation that AIs are the new nukes, you have to have them.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a live-fire exercise for one of his top military priorities: an upgraded rocket launcher able to fire tactical nukes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

Not only had the nukes made those ships a more tempting target, they were more trouble than they were worth, requiring specially trained crews and special security procedures.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025

Not nukes, not fireballs, and not magic missiles.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

This command to wipe out the files as fast as possible nuked “Toy Story 2” in the time it takes to play “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

"I thought we got nuked or something," Mr Rogers told the local newspaper.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

Meanwhile, the real Andy Byron’s real wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, nuked the “Byron” from her name on Facebook and then deactivated her account entirely amid an onslaught of comments from the public, according to Newsweek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

The United States has ruled, nuked, resettled, been attacked from and fought wars on the smaller islands scattered across the Pacific over a span of more than 100 years.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

I want the background to glow, to look irradiated, nuked out.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

“But I would not subscribe to the idea of nuking the Fed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

His flawed hyperloop plan, for example, or nuking the Martian poles to create an atmosphere, or basically anything he’s promised about Twitter.

From Scientific American ● May 15, 2023

Players can freely control Zack in 3-D space, swinging his giant sword at a monster and dodging its attacks in between nuking it with magic spells.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

There are also better ways to profit off of Twitter’s power users than nuking the verification system.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2022

I was still fuzzy on why nuking grapes could cause a plasma ball.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas