Example sentences for: nukes

How can you use “nukes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the 1956 presidential race, Democrats seized on what columnist Max Lerner called "The Triple Issue": President Eisenhower's frail physical health (he'd had a heart attack in September 1955), nukes (the Soviet Union built a hydrogen bomb in November 1955), and, in Lerner's phrase, "the character of Richard Nixon" (liberals viewed Nixon, then vice president, as bellicose and ruthless).

  • And a NYT op-ed piece tells a likewise cautionary tale about nukes, saying that Iraq has arrived at a Scud-launchable atomic bomb design and that to make it work, Saddam only needs 35 pounds of enriched uranium.

  • The coverage notes however that the report discloses for the first time that Lee was fired last February after he failed a polygraph test in which he was asked if he ever passed computer information on miniaturized nukes to unauthorized people.

  • Hey, at the end of the day it's Uganda with nukes.

  • The Post lead quotes an American nuclear security expert saying that the Russian economy is the world's greatest proliferation threat--since the ruble was devalued last summer, the government has slashed the salaries of nuclear plant workers and guards, which means not only fewer people protecting the nukes but also more people prone to the temptations of selling them.


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