go nuclear
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
verb
To start using nuclear technology.
verb
To involve the use of nuclear weapons, especially in war.
verb
To throw a fit; to become enraged with an angry outburst.
verb
To escalate to an extremely high level of excitement or enthusiasm.
Example Sentences
- "In this context, the humiliating defeat of 1971 and the Indian nuclear test were major factors in the Pakistani decision to go nuclear."
- "A decision to go nuclear has important adverse diplomatic repercussions as well. Trying to build a nuclear arsenal is not the way to win friends in the international community."
- "This agreement codified nuclear apartheid, leaving in place three types of nuclear states: the five recognized nuclear powers (the United States, Britain, China, France, and the Soviet Union), NATO and Warsaw Pact allies with access to nuclear weapons but not ownership, and a large class of non-nuclear states who renounced their right to go nuclear."
- "Now the cost-benefiters calculated nuclear power to be a more efficient investment than building more coal-fired plants, which put them in agreement with the technological optimists on the question of whether to go nuclear."
- "However, once we bite the bullet and decide to go nuclear again, it will take at least a decade before new plants start coming on line."
- "When US energy policy went nuclear, about the same time as some large mines flooded in Canada and Australia, hedge fund speculators dived into the market and uranium shot up to US$138 a pound, settling back eventually to about half that price, but still almost ten times the US$7 low."