Sentence examples for dropping a nuclear from inspiring English sources

"It was like dropping a nuclear bomb on the helix," Al-Hashimi said.

Last year, Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, equated sanctions in the foreign sales corporation case to dropping a nuclear bomb on trans-Atlantic trade.

It is akin to Australia dropping a nuclear bomb on New Zealand because they had the temerity to claim Crowded House as their own.

Those ideas, as the Times recounted this morning, include drilling a hole near the well and dropping a nuclear warhead in.

Zhirinovsky has, on various occasions in the past, suggested sinking the US with gravitational weapons and dropping a nuclear bomb on Istanbul.

Adelson, who in 2013 suggested dropping a nuclear bomb in the Iranian desert as a warning to Tehran against building nuclear weapons, has also made personal calls to some Democratic senators to urge them to oppose the deal, sources say.

I don't believe it has the capacity to drop a nuclear bomb on the U.S., even Japan.

I knew it would be chilly but when I saw leaves falling off the trees I thought someone had dropped a nuclear something!

The Soviets were fully aware that no U.S. president could easily make a decision to drop a nuclear bomb on a heavily populated area simply because of communist provocations.

The trail of "broken arrows" — significant accidents involving nuclear weapons — can be traced back to February 1950, when a B-36 bomber dropped a nuclear weapon into the Pacific Ocean during a training mission and then crashed in British Columbia.

In his most recent thriller, "The Devil's Light," Richard North Patterson wrote a detailed plot in which Osama bin Laden tries to drop a nuclear bomb on the United States to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.