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[[File:nuke fantasticfour41 330 8509.jpg|link=Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|frame|The right tool for the right job.]]
{{quote|"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. [[It's the Only Way to Be Sure]]."
|'''Ellen Ripley''', ''[[Aliens]]''}}
a.k.a Deus Ex Pyrobolō Atomicō by those who don't know their [[Canis Latinicus]].
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* In the issue of ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' where Namor first reappears, he attacks New York with a gigantic, whale-like creature. The Thing carries a nuke into the creature's stomach in an attempt to kill it. He escapes [[Just in Time|with seconds to spare]].
* Played straight in ''[[Kingdom Come]]''.{{context}}
* In a ''[[Rogue Trooper]]'' story, Col Kovert tricks Rogue into personally delivering a mini-nuke to a Nort base on one of Nu-Earth's moons. {{spoiler|It blew up the moon}}.
== Fan Works ==
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{{quote|"Oh no!" said Obama, "The feces are spreading outside the wall of the city! We must use nuke!"}}
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* In ''Fail-Safe'', the only politically feasible solution to the accidental {{spoiler|nuclear destruction of Moscow}} is for the President to order a US bomber to {{spoiler|nuke New York City}}. The pilot, whose wife and children are {{spoiler|in New York (the pilot resides there too) drops the bomb and [[Driven to Suicide|immediately commits suicide]]}} and one could hardly blame him.
** The president's wife and kids were also in Manhattan.
* Humanity constructs a really big nuke in ''[[Sunshine (film)|Sunshine]]'', in a desperate bid to, ahem, ''re-ignite the sun''. Never mind that the sun creates the amount of energy generated by the bomb many times over ''every single second''. Best to suspend your disbelief on this point. The flaws of this idea are pointed out in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100409024721/http://theslackerz.com/index.php?nav=Comic&Page=45 this comic].
** The same exact concept is used in ''Solar Crisis''. At least that film had [[Fan Service|Annabel Schofield walking around in her skivvies]]....
* In the 1979 epic ''Meteor'', a gigantic piece of a main-belt asteroid breaks off and is headed straight for Earth. US and Soviet orbital nuclear weapons that point Earthward are turned toward the incoming meteor. [[Special Effect Failure]] ensues.
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* Speaking of Valve games, the goal of ''[[Alien Swarm]]'' is to "introduce our new friends to the wonders of the nuclear age". Bonus points for big yellow smiley face painted on the bomb.
* Subverted in ''[[Crysis (series)|Crysis]]'' where a nuclear strike only [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|makes things worse]]. In the second installment of the game you race against time to ''avert'' a nuclear strike on Manhattan. {{spoiler|You succeed, which may come as a surprise given the game's propensity for [[Monumental Damage]].}}
== Western Animation ==
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* ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' Season 1 finale ended with the legion trying to deliver a nuke to a suneater that was guarded by kill bots and a nearly-impenetrable shield. One team went off to beat up the mastermind, another team went off to temporarily disable the shield and everyone else had to buy the bomb squad time and a path to deliver it. Ferro Lad had to set off the detonator manually.
* Similar to the Fantastic Four example above, the Thing had to carry a nuke to the center of Ego, the living planet, in the 90's ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' cartoon.
* Guardians in ''[[
== Real Life ==
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