Example sentences for: nukes

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

  • Instead of trashing this treaty because it doesn't do everything, we ought to be working on how to go further in the direction of international control of all 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.

  • The breakup of the U.S.S.R. shattered the army into 15 pieces, as Russia lost nukes, ships, bases, and many of its best officers to newly independent republics.

  • Meanwhile, Russia is debating whether to cut its conventional forces and authorize first use of its nukes as a substitute deterrent (as the United States will still do).

  • 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.


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