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

But I don’t think they’re going to nuke us.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2023

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

If it does, Saudi Arabia probably “has an interest in keeping open the possibility of having some nukes as a deterrent” of its own, Fred says.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

But honestly, the problem isn’t that the AI is in charge of the nukes, right?

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

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

There's endless appointments, all sorts of side effects from having your body "nuked like Chernobyl", fatigue from having to constantly advocate for yourself, and massive financial pressure - despite subsidies from Australia's universal healthcare system.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

“I thought we got nuked or something,” said Rogers, 34.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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

“We nuked a couple of frozen burritos,” said Jake.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Vice website remains there for the clicking, which is a bit better than nuking it from the internet altogether, as the Messenger did when it burned out after less than a year of operation.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2024

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

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