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nuclear buttons

nuclear buttons is the plural of nuclear button.

Meaning of nuclear button

Noun

nuclear button (plural nuclear buttons)

  1. The means (not likely literally a button) of quickly and easily launching nuclear warheads.
    • Imagine, now, this irrepressible figure [Boris Johnson] transposed to the Group of 8 summit chamber, or with his finger on the nuclear button, or in the Downing Street equivalent of the White House Situation Room, deciding whether or not to send British troops to war.2014 September 1, Matthew d’Ancona, “Boris Johnson’s Blond Ambition”, in New York Times
  2. (broadly) The means of triggering a huge controversy, fight, or act of destruction.
    • The four left the meeting and in their absence the nuclear button was pushed. A daring plan was hatched to fully underwrite Ireland's entire banking network.2012, David Murphy, Martina Devlin, Banksters, page 1972

Questions about nuclear buttons

What is nuclear buttons the plural of?
Nuclear buttons is the plural of nuclear button.

Words near nuclear buttons in the dictionary

  1. nuclear bodies
  2. nuclear body
  3. nuclear bomb
  4. nuclear bombs
  5. nuclear button
  6. nuclear buttons
  7. nuclear cataract
  8. nuclear cataracts
  9. nuclear charge
  10. nuclear charges
  11. nuclear chemistry

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