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While never publicly codified, Leidenstad effectively changed tacks to pursue a nuclear latency policy after 1975. This was felt to be both more politically palatable given the difficult internal situation in the aftermath of the Verventis Riots, and also better suited to Cryrian defense posture and its wider international position. Under such a doctrine, Cryria was to continue developing its civilian program and through it would remain "A screwturn" away from obtaining nuclear weapons in the event that its national security position came under a severe threat. While rarely discussed openly, it has since become apparent that the Kingdom planned for a six-month breakout period to a nuclear device in the event of a "serious crisis," which encompassed circumstances that might include foreign nuclear threats or dangers to the existence of the Cryrian state itself. The Latency Doctrine fell under the mandate of the Special Materials Division, which also continued to provide protection and oversight for nuclear materials and facilities in the Kingdom.
The transition to the Latency Doctrine and the subsequent transfer of resources away from military purposes allowed the civilian program to flourish. As of 2002, the Kingdom operated nineteen commercial reactors as well as seven smaller ones for research and radiopharmaceutical purposes. All nuclear power plants were controlled by RG&E, though several research reactors were operated by either academic institutions or private enterprises. Since Verventis, Cryrian power plants used the Cryrian Deuterium Uranium(CDU) pressurized heavy-water reactor design, which could utilize unenriched natural uranium or uranium mixed with other materials such as plutonium or thorium. In the decades after the launch of Verventis the Kingdom was able to position itself as a leader in heavy water reactors that can operate on natural uranium
Since the establishment of the Latency Doctrine, the Kingdom also created a stockpile of nuclear materials from and ostensibly for the civilian program. By 2002 it had accumulated over twenty tons of plutonium and half a ton of uranium. The independent launch capabilities of the RCSA also meant that the country had developed much of the technology needed for an effective delivery system.
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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.
==Major Installations==
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