>A meltdown is a meltdown...any way you say it...nucular or nuclear.

Indeed. Back to words, though, I thought the most interesting comment was about the use of nuclear in phrases like "nuclear medicine" and "nuclear family". If Dubya, or anyone else who says "nucular", actually pronounces the word correctly in those other contexts, that would indicate a phoney, calculated dumbing-down of their speech, for whatever reason. Has anybody heard your esteemed cinc using the phrase "nuclear family" or "nuclear medicine" to report on consistency of mispronunciation (or lack thereof?)