Nuke (2024)

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What does we nuke mean? ›

Meaning of nuke in English

to bomb somewhere with nuclear weapons: The two countries were threatening to nuke each other. to destroy or get rid of something completely: The gaffe nuked her election chances.

to destroy or get rid of something completely: The gaffe nuked her election chances. I'm considering nuking my social media profiles.

verb. nuked; nuking. transitive verb. 1. : to attack or destroy with or as if with nuclear bombs.

a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.

A dirty bomb is not the same as an atomic bomb

A dirty bomb works completely differently and cannot create an atomic blast. Instead, a dirty bomb uses dynamite or other explosives to scatter radioactive dust, smoke, or other material in order to cause radioactive contamination.

The blast kills people close to ground zero, and causes lung injuries, ear damage and internal bleeding further away. People sustain injuries from collapsing buildings and flying objects. Thermal radiation is so intense that almost everything close to ground zero is vaporized.

The bomb emoji, 💣, is used to emphasize that something is mind-blowing or amazing (i.e., explosive) or the slang bomb, especially for things like parties or lookin' good. It's also used for news that may be shocking or clinching (i.e., a bombshell or boom, there is it).

nuke (n.) 1959, U.S. military slang, short for nuclear weapon (1947); see nuclear. The verb is attested from 1962; the slang sense of "to cook in a microwave oven" is by 1987.

It means they heat it up in the microwave oven. 2.

Nuclear bombs work by changing the cores of atoms to turn them into other types of atoms. This process releases a lot of heat energy, which quickly gets converted into a big wave of pressure: an explosion!

What is a lost nuke called? ›

Unsealed documents show one is in the Mediterranean Sea, two are in the Pacific Ocean, two in the Atlantic Ocean and one is in Eastern North Carolina. It was lost deep underground in a farmer's field 62 years ago. The military term for when something goes wrong with a nuclear weapon is a "broken arrow."

No one person can be credited with producing the world's first atomic bomb but two men had outsize achievements in that effort: physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Army Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves.

But a hydrogen bomb has the potential to be 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, according to several nuclear experts.

Tsar Bomba, Soviet thermonuclear bomb that was detonated in a test over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961. The largest nuclear weapon ever set off, it produced the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded.

Although nuclear weapons have only been used twice in warfare—in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945—about 13,400 reportedly remain in our world today and there have been over 2,000 nuclear tests conducted to date.

Nuclear-Weapon States:

The nuclear-weapon states (NWS) are the five states—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—officially recognized as possessing nuclear weapons by the NPT.

The United States is known to have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. The U.S. is the only country to have used nuclear weapons on another country, when it detonated two atomic bombs over two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

Don't Nuke It. The phrase is often used by Sailors as a way to say stop over thinking things in the way a nuclear officer might. Don't dissect everything down to its nuts and bolts. Just stop thinking. But that's the thing; Sailors who are part of the nuclear Navy can't stop.