| 单词 | nuclear button |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnuclear button c. More fully nuclear button. Used with the in various phrases which conceptualize the order to launch a nuclear strike as the pressing of a single button; esp. in to push (also press) the button.Cf. push-button adj. 1b and to press (also push) the button at Phrases 10b. ΚΠ 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Refl. on Gandhi in Partisan Rev. Jan. 91 In the few years left to us before somebody presses the button and the rockets begin to fly. 1957 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 16 Dec. 2/1 Such a plan will not answer the big questions of whose finger will be on the button. 1984 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 7 Apr. 2/4 His [sc. Walter Mondale's] advertising warns..of the dangers of an ‘unsure’ or ‘unsteady’ or ‘untested’ hand on the nuclear button. 2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Oct. (Business section) 2 It's the same with America's Cold War stand-off with Cuba and the Soviet Union... Some historians claim there was a one in five chance that one or other side would have hit the button. < as lemmas |
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