nuke

“Just imagine having to reason about a nuke that could also solve cancer.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

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

If that’s not interesting, maybe DHS could focus more on making sure that the Pentagon’s nuke silos and surrounding local areas are not full of hacker-friendly holes.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2023

“Is this some end-of-the-world thing? You want to find your father and reconcile before your alien friends nuke the planet?”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

In case of a Soviet attack, nukes dispersed in thousands of miles of cut-and-cover tunnels could be launched within 20 minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

No U.S. surface vessel has carried nukes since the end of the Cold War.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025

And now Coin, with her fistful of precious nukes and her well-oiled machine of a district, finding it’s even harder to groom a Mockingjay than to catch one.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

Scrambling an egg is — apart from boiling water or nuking a burrito — perhaps the easiest thing a cook can do.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

Yes, today’s helicopter and tiger parents were once latchkey kids, nuking solitary French bread pizza dinners in the microwave.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021

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