Cryrian Defense Forces: Difference between revisions

Government-sponsored physics-oriented defense research in Cryria dates back to 1941 with the founding of the King Albert Military Institute in Leidenstad. For much of its early existence, the institute's focus was on conventional aerospace defense such as jet engines, rockets, and radars. Early experiments with nuclear material were conducted by civilian researchers at the University of Leidenstad. It was not until after Ethalrian nuclear tests in the 1950s that KAMI was directed by the Ministry of Defense to examine what was known about these new weapons. The Institute's final report would initiate discussions within the Cryrian Government regarding the peaceful and military uses of nuclear technology. Although the military interests in nuclear technology remained shrouded in secrecy, close connections soon formed between it and the civilian nuclear program due to both a need to share limited resources and expertise, as well as a desire to conceal military nuclear activities beneath civilian ones. This unique Military-Civil relationship would come to define the Cryrian nuclear program throughout its history.