Maybe the nuclear option will turn out to be a dead end.

Finally, you also say that we should keep the nuclear option open.

First, it must take the nuclear option off the table.

Let’s hope it doesn’t take the nuclear option to get us there.

Or it could try the nuclear option: going to court.

Very careful analysis is still needed before going with the nuclear option.

Known as “accounting officer notes”, they are the mandarins’ nuclear option.

The need now is to take a range of actions which keep the nuclear option open.

The nuclear option is far more viable than most people thought.

"This is an effort to provide the nuclear option," he said.

The last and most desperate course of action is the nuclear option.

They do have the nuclear option, but it's not a card I would expect them to play.

Not in decades has the nuclear option looked more attractive.

And it has kept the nuclear option up its sleeve just in case.

And that's partly why a lot of people called it the nuclear option.

The smarter strategy would be to keep the nuclear option open.

A vote on the nuclear option was scheduled for Tuesday morning.

"I wouldn't have come out against the nuclear option if my political ambitions were playing a role in this."

What she didn't address was the nuclear option being threatened in two key European countries.

That agreement caused the Republicans to step back from plans to use the nuclear option.

In return, the seven Republicans agreed they would not vote to carry out the "nuclear option."

But he also wants to preserve a nuclear option for the alliance.

But only if America's chief executives exercise their "nuclear option."

He expresses a desire to have the nuclear option &quoton the table.

The nuclear option was raised again following the congressional elections of 2012.