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{{Short description|American thrash metal band}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Nuclear Assault
| image = Nuclear Assault Party.San 2016 01.jpg
| image_upright = 1.25
| caption = Erik Burke (left) and John Connelly at Party.San Open Air in 2015
| origin = New York City, U.S.
| genre = {{flatlist|
* [[Thrash metal]]
* [[crossover thrash]]}}
| years_active = {{flatlist|
* 1984–1995
* 1997–1998
* 2001–2008
* 2011–2022}}
| label = {{flatlist|
* [[I.R.S. Records|I.R.S.]]
* [[Relativity Records|Relativity]]
* [[Combat Records|Combat]]
* In-Effect
* Receiver
* [[SPV GmbH|SPV]]}}
| website = <!-- {{URL|http://www.nuclearassault.us/}} --> <!-- Dead link as of April 16, 2016 -->
| past_members = [[John Connelly (musician)|John Connelly]]<br />[[Dan Lilker]]<br />Glenn Evans<br />Anthony Bramante<br />Dave DiPietro<br />Scott Metaxas<br />Eric Burke<br />Scott Harrington
}}

'''Nuclear Assault''' was an American [[thrash metal]] band formed in New York City in 1984. Part of the mid-to-late 1980s thrash metal movement, they were one of the main bands of the genre to emerge from the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] along with [[Overkill (band)|Overkill]], [[Whiplash (band)|Whiplash]], [[Toxik]], [[Carnivore (band)|Carnivore]], and [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-a-z-of-anthrax|title=The A-Z of Anthrax|publisher=loudersound.com|date=October 28, 2016|access-date=August 18, 2018|archive-date=August 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818214609/https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-a-z-of-anthrax|url-status=live}}</ref> the last of which was co-founded by Nuclear Assault bassist [[Dan Lilker]], who had been canned from Anthrax shortly after the release of [[Fistful of Metal|their first album]]. Nuclear Assault released five full-length albums and toured relentlessly throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, and broke up in 1995. The band reunited briefly in 1997, and permanently from 2001 to 2008 and again from 2011 to 2022.

Nuclear Assault released six studio albums, in addition to two live albums, four EPs and one [[Assault & Battery (Nuclear Assault album)|compilation album]]. Their most successful records are ''[[Survive (Nuclear Assault album)|Survive]]'' (1988) and ''[[Handle with Care (Nuclear Assault album)|Handle with Care]]'' (1989), which peaked at Nos. 145 and 126 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart, respectively.<ref name="charthistory">{{cite magazine |url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=nuclear assault|chart=all}} |title=Nuclear Assault Album & Song Chart History |access-date=December 21, 2012 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]}}</ref> Other than four new songs in 2015 on the EP ''[[Pounder (EP)|Pounder]]'', the band did not release any more full-length studio albums after 2005's ''[[Third World Genocide]]'', but continued to perform live sporadically over the following years before calling it quits once again in 2022.