Cryria and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Difference between revisions

[[Cryria]] has at various points possessed weapons of mass destruction, including now-dismantled chemical and biological stockpiles. The Kingdom also has a sophisticated civilian nuclear industry and may have conducted a potential nuclear weapons test in addition to developing a collection of delivery systems. However, it does not presently acknowledge the existence of atomic weapons on its soil.

 

Primitive chemical weapons have been used in Cryria since ancient times, however chemical warfare as a modern concept did not appear until the late 19th-century. The establishment of the Cryrian chemical warfare doctrine is largely accredited to General Elise Berggren who apocryphally drew inspiration from industrial chemical accidents she witnessed during her own impoverished childhood in Tuigar.

 

Chemical substances designated as incendiaries, explosives, or defoliants remain in CDF service. Substances for riot control are also utilized in law enforcement contexts.

 

Instances of early biological warfare occur throughout Cryrian history. During various conflicts, the Cryrian Church offered absolution and monetary compensation to plague victims who would be willingly transported to hostile lands, while hurling cadavers over the walls of besieged settlements was a common tactic. Advances in germ theory and the Great War resulted in attempts to weaponize anthrax as a means of sabotaging food supplies, but ultimately a lack of viable delivery systems hampered this.

 

The outbreak of the Volscine Civil War badly upended a security environment on which Cryria had relied on for decades. Fears surrounding the future fate of the Volscine nuclear arsenal and potential rogue actors that might arise from the rubble in West Novaris led the Kingdom to renew its own nuclear ambitions. Dubbed as the Ademar's Gate project, the new program began two weeks after the collapse of Volscina and effectively ended the Latency Doctrine. The imperatives behind the project further escalated when the [[Charlottesborg Mutiny]] resulted in the Kingdom transferring formal recognition from the Volscine Confederation to the Volscine Empire while intervening in Charlottesborg itself, a decision which created serious concerns of potential future retaliation by various Volscine factions or a further Cryrian entanglement in the civil war.

 

 

The Crisis was concluded with the signing of the Solstice Accords. The published versions of the Accords made no reference to the nuclear program, which itself was never publicly acknowledged by the Cryrian government. However, the Accords did see the transfer of nuclear reactors and technology to Älemsi Negdel, and it is thought that other restrictions and inspection regimes were implemented on the weapons program to satisfy Älemsi worries. It is unlikely that these restrictions were intended to wholly stop the development of Cryrian nuclear weapons however, as the Fara Incident took place roughly three months later without protests from the Älemsi government.