User blog comment:Ssj3gogeta96/Ways to kill a soul reaper/@comment-10311185-20130601183731

1. I don't think you could kill a shinigami with a nuke (or any other physical weapon). Nukes would only destroy a person's physical. Shinigami are basically ghosts, so they don't really have a physical body to be destroyed. I suppose if they were wearing a gigai at the time, that would be destroyed. Actually,in the bleach universe, a nuke wouldn't totally destroy a ordinary human. It would kill them, but their soul would still be there. However, you could kill a shinigami if you had a spirit nuke. 2. As for whether a shinigami could fall to their death, it seem possible. In various battles when some spiritual being (shinigami, arrancar, etc.,) gets smashed into the ground, they do seem to suffer some damage as a result.