# Anti-Nuke

> Protection against destruction by someone who already has permissions — mass channel deletion, mass bans, or handing dangerous permissions to a role. The attacker is inside, so rate-limiting joins does nothing.

- Canonical: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/anti-nuke
- Group: Moderation
- See also: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/anti-raid, https://discordtools.blog/glossary/role-hierarchy, https://discordtools.blog/glossary/audit-log
- Updated: 2026-08-31
- Publication: The Index, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc.

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Anti-nuke works by watching privileged actions and reacting to their rate: five channel
deletions in ten seconds is not administration, it is an incident. The usual response is to
strip the actor’s roles immediately and alert the owner.

It is a genuinely rarer feature than anti-raid — of sixteen moderation and security bots
examined in this publication’s research, three shipped real anti-nuke. **Vetox** covers it
through its protection rule set.