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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.
Ademar's Gate was intended swiftly develop testable nuclear devices before serious opposition could coalesce. However, the project was detected by the Älemsi government which in turn sought to pressure the Cryrian government into making concessions in the [[Northern Waters Dispute]]. This would eventually help lead to the Second Yeralik Crisis.
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.
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=== Present Day ===
The Cryrian government has denied suggestions of a nuclear weapons program or the existence of a nuclear arsenal on Cryrian soil in the aftermath of the Fara Incident. Despite some speculation that that the country might adapt its RBS 15 missile system to deliver warheads, or else construct gravity bombs that could be deployed from its Gripen fighter jets, there were few indications of any meaningful
The matter briefly returned to the spotlight in 2014 when the Kingdom's ''Kraken''-class submarines were equipped with the RBS 20 Fångstarm cruise missile, which were thought to be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. If true, this would give the Kingdom a viable second-strike capability, albeit a limited one given that the ''Kraken''-class is powered by diesel-electric engines and the Fångstarm has not demonstrated a range beyond 1,500 km.
The strongest indication of a Cryrian nuclear deterrent was unveiled in 2018 when the CDF unveiled the development of the Lielsta series of missiles as a part of the Kingdom's defense investments
Thus, when accounting for the known quantities of these and other related systems, it is estimated that a hypothetical Cryrian nuclear arsenal would be limited to roughly 100-200 deliverable warheads.
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