Sentence:  A nuclear pacifier of these dimensions - roughly some six and a half times bigger than anything the United States has triggered experimentally - would certainly produce a bigger bang , and , just for kicks , Khrushchev might <WSD>use</WSD> it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St. Louis to the moon , where there would n't even be any beer to drink . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose