<p>A co-worker asked me how the word "Nuke" relates to CMS? To be honest I never thought about it, and there wasn't any information on the web that I could find.</p>

<p>Francisco Burzi wrote that his Perl script that he used to manage content was called NUKE. His knowledge of that system fueled his adaptation of thatware to phpNuke. </p>

<p>Does anyone know what NUKE stands for and how it is related to content management?</p>

From the faq (
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Knowledge/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/tabid/546/Default.aspx
)
"The new name was chosen to reflect
  the applications .NET (DOTNET)
  framework, and coupled with the term
  “nuke” (due to *nuke’s inherent,
  industry-recognized inclusion in
  several existing open source portal
  initiatives.)"