Nuclear option (disambiguation)

Nuclear option may refer to:

• Nuclear warfare
• Nuclear weapon
  • Strategic nuclear weapon
  • Tactical nuclear weapon

Nuclear option may also refer to:

• nuclear power as an option (especially in the case of power self-sufficiency, and in fighting carbon emissions)
• A political tactic in the US Senate known as the "nuclear option", named by analogy to warfare where the nuclear option is the most extreme of options.
• Other uses that are a similar analogy to being the most extreme amongst a range of options (see hyperbole).

See also

• Nuclear strategy
• Mutual assured destruction
• Intercontinental ballistic missile
• Nuclear triad

• Filibuster in the United States Senate
• Standing Rules of the United States Senate, Rule XXII
• Cloture#United_States

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