Nuclear weapons state

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First Nuclear Weapons Test by Ethalria under the Roter-Himmel Projekt, 5th June, 1953

A nuclear weapons state is a country that maintains a stockpile of nuclear weapons and the necessary equipment to deploy and, if necessary, launch them. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (called a fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (called a thermonuclear bomb).

History

(See also: Auroran Imperial War)

Nuclear weapons were first devised by the Ethalrian Empire in 1953 during the Auroran Cold War, a period of political tensions among the major powers of Aurora during the years between the Great War and Auroran Imperial War. Since then, the number of states possessing nuclear weapons has gradually increased, as have the explosive yields and capable travel distance of these weapons. Historically uranium has been the most common fissile material used in nuclear weapons, though plutonium also sees some use. Nuclear weapons have been deployed in land, sea, and air-based systems, and were even deployed in outer space during events leading up to and during the Auroran Imperial War. Packilvania conducted its first nuclear test in 1966 Wusul Kabir under the Packilvanian Communist Party. It began a rapid program of nuclear acquisition as part of a nuclear arms race with South Hills. As of 2021, it is the largest nuclear weapons state.

List of Nuclear Weapons States

As of 2021, the following countries are either confirmed or believed to maintain nuclear weapons:

Country	Warheads		Date of first test	Site of first test	Delivery methods	Tests
	Deployed	Total
Tavaris	48	54	June 30th 2012 (Scepter-1)	Crystal Province, Tavaris	Sea and air based	7
Volscina	320	355	September 4th 1965	Sonnenwüste, Volscina	Nuclear Triad	277
Norgsveldet	300	300-320	December 10th 1960 (Mjølnirs torden)	Innland, Tangrland	Nuclear Triad, Mostly land and sea based	221
Tretrid	300	325-390	March 15th 1963 (Dōmdæg)	Hwītsand, Tretrid	Nuclear Triad, Mostly land and sea based	271
Tuvaltastan	183	206	August 31st 1954 (Courier's Tide)	Sats’q’isi Point, Salovia (now Volova)	Nuclear Triad	561
Volova	0	100	August 31st 1954 (Courier's Tide) see Tuvaltastan	Sats’q’isi Point, Salovia (now Volova)	Land based	559 see Tuvaltastan
Vistaraland	270-290	295–360	January 12th 1960 (Aarde Vallen Een)	Leoland, Chibilaba	Nuclear Triad, Mostly sea and air based	243
South Hills	800	1,085	February 8th 1962 (Vernon Project)	The Genesis Point, New Tilden, South Hills	Nuclear Triad	162
Great Morstaybishlia	1,334	1,812	September 12th 1964 (Tropical Breeze)	Black Island, Grayson Isles, Seligeze Islands, Morstaybishlia	Nuclear Triad	222
Packilvania	1,950	2,134	January 2nd, 1966 (Wusul Kebir)	Outside of Wusul Kebir, Ukanar, Packilvania	Land and Sea Based	243
Durakia	5	5-50	April 20th, 2021 (Hoban Svertar)	Kretsburg, Irnac, Durakia	Nuclear Triad	1-5
Volkia	324	375-400	November 19, 1986 (Zimnyaya Burya)	Kurilsk Oblast, Volkia	Nuclear Triad	79

Other Nuclear Weapons States without up-to-date public records

• Asendavia
• East Cerdani
• Free Pacific States

Stateless Possessors of Nuclear Weapons

• Posol Industries: Due to unique circumstances involving a lack of capability to maintain nuclear weapons and the foreseen political instability of the nation, Posol Industries was placed under the responsibility of approximately 100 nuclear weapons after the dissolution of Kostromastan from 2018 until 2022, when Kostromastan's successor nation Volova reasserted control over the nuclear weapons. Posol Industries no longer possesses nuclear weapons.

List of Former Nuclear Weapons States

As of 2021, the following countries are states that once possessed nuclear weapons but have since decommissioned or relinquished them, or alternatively are nations that no longer exist in the present day:

Country	Date of first test	Site of first test	Delivery methods	Tests	Date of Decommissioning
Axdel	October 4th 1973 (Project Pebble)	Azure Sea	Land and Sea based	18	April 25th 2019
Grand Matriarchy of Ethalria	June 5th 1953 (Roter-Himmel Projekt)	Azure Sea	Nuclear Triad
Oscrelia ( Thorntonist Oscrelia)			Land and Air based		1986
Kostromastan ( Salovia)	August 31st 1954 (Courier's Tide)				N/A (Nation ceased to exist)

Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Decommissioning Programs

Kevatuul seen from the 2nd stage of the Alus rocket manoeuvring into retrograde orientation

Axdel

Noroist Axdel began its own nuclear program during the Auroran Imperial War, recruiting expat scientists, including some who had worked on the Ethalria program, as well recovering and reverse engineering a number of Morstaybishlian weapons. A small, potent thermonuclear warhead designated N-1 was developed during the war for deployment on the Kevatuul satellite, a first strike system with ten independent reentry vehicles intended to destroy fleets and military bases in the event of a Morstaybishlian invasion of Axdel. This became the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare on Aurora when the Ethalrian city of Ribenstadt was targeted by the weapon. Whilst devastating, the satellite proved to have a low accuracy. Thankfully a retaliatory strike was averted and post war as part of peace negotiations the satellite was deorbited, further development of space weaponry was abandoned (becoming a signatory of the Cynebury Accord), and Axdel was made to pay reparations for the damage done and lives lost. Axdel retained its nuclear program and accumulated stockpile, however, and a further fifteen underground and two above ground tests were conducted from 1975-1996. The nation maintained a land and sea based stockpile maintained for the purpose of deterrence, eschewing the use of tactical weapons, although it abstained from disclosing the number of warheads at its disposal.

After the Noroist government fell in 1996 the new government reported a stockpile of 532 nuclear warheads, primarily of the N-5 400kt design. In 2000 they agreed to decommission and dismantle the weapons before 2025 as part of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty with the MBE. The weapons were decommissioned in 2019, and are to be dismantled by 2023. The nation still has a nuclear program as part of its policy of nuclear latency, officially continuing to maintain the facilities, materials and technical expertise necessary to quickly design and construct new warheads on demand. Axdel is thus considered a paranuclear state.

Salovia

After the conclusion of the Auroran Imperial War in 1975, Salovia began efforts to reduce their total nuclear stockpile from the 1974 peak of 1,386, pledging to reduce the number to 500 by the year 1994. However, due to the Salovian civil war in 1985, the decommissioning program was put into a legal limbo, and approximately 650 nuclear weapons remained in service.

The inheritor nations of Tuvaltastan and Kostromastan agreed to continue the decommissioning program first set out by Salovia, and brought the total stockpile to 250 by 2005. However, the Kost-Tuva War in 2009 and 2010 between the two nations led to the creation of an additional 50 nuclear weapons between the two, and the number has remained at 306 since.

Oscrelia

After the Thornton dictatorship ended in the wake of the Auroran Imperial War, the new republican Oscrelian government inherited control of Oscrelia's arsenal of 23 land and air-based nuclear warheads. In 1982, in wake of a series of anti-nuclear protests, the government declared that it would be dismantling its entire nuclear arsenal from 1984 to 1986, and invited inspectors from the Auroran Continental Assembly to observe and verify Oscrelian nuclear disarmament.

Oscrelia was declared free of nuclear weapons by 1986, but remained a paranuclear state until it dismantled its enrichment facilities in 1992, once again under the eyes of ACA inspectors.