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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

Basically, it means that the United States takes the basic concept of “deterrence”—if an enemy nukes us, we’ll nuke the enemy—and “extends” it to allies.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2023

“You’re bringing together Wikipedia-style answers to an infinite number of questions, and that’s just going to nuke many corners of the open web.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

“I heard you got the nuke codes on you,” Eric said to me as Todd took his foul shots.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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

As for China, intelligence agencies estimate that it will have 1,000 nukes by 2030—only about one-third as many as the U.S. or Russia—but yes, the Chinese are building more nukes.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025

“The clans have been lobbing nukes at that sphere for the past two weeks, and they haven’t even scratched it. How are you going to get it to ‘drop on its own’?”

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

“It’s really ironic that this piece probably got more attention than anything we normally published,” Lopez added, “even after they nuked the website.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

“The extent to which America nuked itself is not completely appreciated still, to this day, by most Americans, especially younger Americans,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

“If you were that hungry,” said Emma, “we should’ve just nuked a frozen cheeseburger back home.”

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

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