Citations:bucket of sunshine

sense: "nuclear weapon"

 * 2011 - Rick Jolly, "Tugg". Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang and Usage.
 * bucket of sunshine/instant sunshine   Fairly standard euphemism for a nuclear weapon.*CND activists are known as the Bucket of Sunshine Brigade; see also *unscheduled sunrise.


 * 2012 - Mike Brooke. Bucket of Sunshine: Life on a Cold War Canberra Squadron.
 * Term is used in the title. I don't know how to cite the title. Is that permitted? Remove this citation if not, I will include another citation just in case.


 * 2012 - Charlie Croker. Terms of Employment: The Secret Lingo of the Workplace
 * The Navy has its sun dodgers (submariners) and louse ladders (sideburns), while instead of going to bed, members of the RAF climb up and level at two foot six. They also, with a rather darker sense of humor, refer to a nuclear weapon as a bucket of sunshine.


 * 2016 - Andrew Futter, David Jarvis. The United Kingdom and the Future of Nuclear Weapons
 * First, consider the payload itself, the nuclear bomb - the "bucket of sunshine" - the part that, in the final analysis, is what the United Kingdom hopes its aggressor will not want appearing overhead.