A darkly ironic military euphemism for a nuclear weapon, weaponizing cheerful imagery to describe something catastrophically destructive. The phrase is pure black humor — the kind that emerges when people who work around terrifying things need a way to talk about them without dwelling on the horror. It has appeared in military slang, fiction, and casual conversation whenever someone wants to understate a nuclear threat with uncomfortable wit.
The briefing casually referred to the warhead as a bucket of sunshine, which somehow made the whole situation feel even more unsettling.
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(military slang, euphemism) A nuclear weapon.
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