http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option#Other_uses_of_.22nuclear_option.22
Other uses of "nuclear option"
Beyond the specific context of U.S. federal judicial appointments, the term "nuclear option" has come to be used generically for a procedural maneuver with potentially serious consequences, to be used as a last resort to overcome political opposition.
In a recent legal ruling on the validity of the Hunting Act 2004 (Jackson and others v. Her Majesty's Attorney General [2005] UKHL 56, 13 October 2005), the UK House of Lords used "nuclear option" to describe the possibility of creating hundreds of new Liberal peers, which the government threatened to do in order to force the Tory-dominated Lords to accept the Great Reform Act of 1832.
Reconciliation has been used a number of times in the past, and nothing blew up or was incinerated. Still, you insist on calling it the nuclear option.
Well, if that floats your boat, paddle on. But do so without me.