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[[File:EthalrianNukeTest.jpg|right|300px|thumb|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 [[wikipedia:nuclear weapon|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 Arms Race|Auroran Imperial War]])''
 
Nuclear weapons were first devised inby blathe blaEthalrian blaEmpire in some1953 yearduring thatthe IAuroran don'tCold knowWar, a period of political tensions among the major powers of [[Aurora]] during the years between the [[Great War]] and Auroran Imperial War. Since that timethen, 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==
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! <small>Deployed</small>
! <small>Total</small>
|- style="background:white;"
|-
|{{flagcountry|TAV}}
| {{flagicon image|Kingdom of tavaris flag.png}} [[Tavaris]]
| align="right"| |48
| align="right"| |{{nowrap|54}}
| align="right"| |June 30th 2012 (Scepter-1)
|Crystal Province, [[Tavaris]]
|| Sea and air based
| align="right"| |7
|-
| {{flagcountry|Arkalarius}}
| align="right"| |320
| align="right"| |{{nowrap|355}}
| align="right"| |September 4th 1965
|Sonnenwüste, [[Arkalarius]]Volscina
|| [[wikipedia:Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad]]
| align="right"| |277
|-
|{{flagcountry|NOR}}
| {{flagicon image|Flag norgsveldet.jpg}} [[Norgsveldet]]
| align="right"| |300
| align="right"| |{{nowrap|300-320}}
| align="right"| |December 10th 1960 (Mjølnirs torden)
|Innland, [[Tangrland]]
|| [[wikipedia:Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad]], Mostly sealand and airsea based
| align="right"| |221
|-
| {{flagcountry|TretridTRT}}
| align="right"| |300
| align="right"| |{{nowrap|325-390}}
| align="right"| |March 15th 1963 (Dōmdæg)
| Hwītsand, Tretrid
|| [[wikipedia:Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad]], Mostly land and sea based
| align="right"| |271
|-
| {{flagicon image|Tuvaltflag.png}} [[Tuvaltastan]]
| align="right"| |183
| align="right"| |{{nowrap|206}}
| align="right" | August 31st 1954</br> <center><small> (By Salovia through Operation Courier's Tide) </small></center>
|Sats’q’isi Point, Salovia </br> <center> <small>(now [[Volova]])</small> </center>
|| [[wikipedia:Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad]]
| align="right" | 561 {{refn|group=n|name=Nuclear Tests|<ref>559 Nuclear Tests were conducted under the administration of Salovia. After the [[Salovian Civil War|Civil War]], the nuclear warheads were inherited by Tuvaltastan and Kostromastan, most of which going to Tuvaltastan. During the Kost-Tuva War, Tuvaltastan threatened nuclear attacks, and conducted two tests to follow up the threat.}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagicon image|Vistara FlagVolovaFlag.png}} [[VistaralandVolova]]
| align="right"| 270-290|0
| align="right"| |{{nowrap|295–360100}}
| align="right" |August January31st 12th 19621954 (AardeCourier's Vallen EenTide) <small>see Tuvaltastan<small>
|Sats’q’isi Point, Salovia (now [[Volova]])
||Land based
| align="right" |559 <small>see Tuvaltastan<small>
|-
|{{flagcountry|KVC}}
| align="right" |270-290
| align="right" |{{nowrap|295–360}}
| align="right" |January 12th 1960 (Aarde Vallen Een)
|Leoland, Chibilaba
|| [[wikipedia:Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad]], Mostly sea and air based
| align="right"| |243
|-
|{{flagcountry|UCS}}
| {{flagicon image|Shflag.PNG}} [[South Hills]]
| align="right"| 385|800
| align="right"| |{{nowrap|4401,085}}
| align="right"| |February 8th 19851962 (Vernon Project)
| The Genesis Point, New Tilden, South Hills
|| [[wikipedia:Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad]]
| align="right"| |162
|-
|{{flagcountry|MBE}}
| {{flagicon image|New MBE Flag.png}} [[Great Morstaybishlia]]
| align="right"| |1,334
| align="right"| |{{nowrap|1,812}}
| align="right" | September 12th 1964 (Tropical Breeze)
| Black Island, Grayson Isles, [[Seligeze Islands]], Morstaybishlia
|| [[wikipedia:Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad]]
| align="right"| |222
|-
|{{flagcountry|PAX}}
| {{flagicon image|Paxflag.png}} [[Packilvania]]
| align="right"| 450|1,950
| align="right"| |{{nowrap|5202,134}}
| align="right"| |January 2nd, 1966 (Wusul KabirKebir)
|Outside Packilvanianof Desert,Wusul OutsideKebir, Gedikler[[Ukanar]], [[Packilvania]]
|| Land and Sea Based
| align="right"| 222|243
|-
|{{flagicon image|Durakia Flag.png}} [[Durakia]]
| align="right" |5
| align="right" |{{nowrap|5-50}}
| align="right" |April 20th, 2021 (Hoban Svertar)
|Kretsburg, Irnac, Durakia
||[[wikipedia:Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad]]
| align="right" |1-5
|-
|{{flagicon image|Flag of Volkia.png}} [[Volkia]]
| align="right" |324
| align="right" |{{nowrap|375-400}}
| align="right" | November 19, 1986 (Zimnyaya Burya)
|[[Kurilsk Oblast]], Volkia
||{{wp|Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad}}
| align="right" | 79
|}
===Other Nuclear Weapons States without up-to-date public records===
* {{flagicon image|Asendavia Flag 1.jpeg}} [[Asendavia]]
* {{flagicon image|East Cerdani Flag.svg}} [[East Cerdani]]
* {{flagicon image|FPS Flag.png}} [[Free Pacific States]]
* {{flagicon image|New Kingdom Of Kuthernburg.png}} [[Kuthernburg]]
* {{flagicon image|New Nacata Flag.png}} [[Nacata]]
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Volkia.png}} [[Volkia]]
 
===Stateless Possessors of Nuclear Weapons===
* {{flagicon image|PosolInd.png}} [[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. Therefrom has2018 beenuntil heated2022, debatewhen onKostromastan's whethersuccessor nation Volova, onereasserted ofcontrol aover numberthe ofnuclear nationsweapons. toPosol formIndustries fromno Kostromastan,longer ispossesses thenuclear legal successor state to Kostromastanweapons.
 
== 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:
 
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="font-size:85%"
|- style="background:#efefef; "
!Country
! class="unsortable" |{{longitem|Date of first test}}
! class="unsortable" |{{longitem|Site of first test}}
! class="unsortable" |{{longitem|Delivery methods}}
!{{longitem|Tests}}
!{{longitem|Date of Decommissioning}}
|-
|{{flagicon image|Axdel Flag.png}} [[Axdel]]<ref>Still operates a policy of nuclear latency</ref>
| align="right" |October 4th 1973 (Project Pebble)
| [[Azure Sea]]
|Land and Sea based
| align="right" | 18
| align="right" |April 25th 2019
|-
|{{flagicon image|Imperial_Ethalria.png}} [[Ethalria (Grand Matriarchy)|Grand Matriarchy of Ethalria]]
| align="right" |June 5th 1953 (Roter-Himmel Projekt)
|Azure Sea
|[[wikipedia:Nuclear triad|Nuclear Triad]]
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
|{{flagcountry|Oscrelia}} ({{flagdeco|OSC|thornton}} [[Thorntonist Oscrelia]])
| align="right" |
|
|Land and Air based
| align="right" |
| align="right" |1986
|-
|{{flagicon image|Kostromaflag.png}} [[Kostromastan]] ({{flagicon image|Salovia flag png.png}} [[Salovia]])
| align="right" |August 31st 1954 (Courier's Tide)
|
|
| align="right" |
| align="right" |N/A (Nation ceased to exist)
|}
 
==Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Decommissioning Programs==
[[File:Kevatuul from 2nd stage.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Kevatuul seen from the 2nd stage of the Alus rocket manoeuvring into retrograde orientation]]
 
===Axdel ===
==List of Former Nuclear Weapons States==
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 [[Ethalria (Grand Matriarchy)|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.
As of 2021, the following countries are states that once possessed nuclear weapons capabilities but have since decommissioned or relinquished their nuclear weapons, or alternatively are nations that no longer exist:
 
===Salovia===
* {{flagicon image|Aponivia Flag.svg}} [[Aponivia]] ([[Lamanwasser]])
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.
* {{flagicon image|Atlae.png}} [[Atlae]]
* {{flagicon image|Axdel Flag.png}} [[Axdel]] ({{flagicon image|Norograd Flag.png}} [[Norograd]])
* {{flagicon image|Imperial_Ethalria.png}} [[Ethalria (Grand Matriarchy)|Grand Matriarchy of Ethalria]]
* {{flagcountry|Oscrelia}} ({{flagicon image|Oscrelianstate.svg}} [[Thorntonist Oscrelia]])
* {{flagicon image|Kostromaflag.png}} [[Kostromastan]] ({{flagicon image|Salovia flag png.png}} [[Salovia]])
 
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.
=== Axdel ===
Norograd began its own nuclear programme during the [[Auroran Imperial War]] after recovering and reverse engineering Morstaybishlian weapons. A small thermonuclear warhead designated 'N-1' was developed, and was deployed in a ground-penetrating package on the controversial [[Kevatuul]] satellite. This became the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare on Aurora when several [[Ethalria (Grand Matriarchy)|Ethalrian]] military bases and the city of Rivendale were targeted. Post war, the satellite was deorbited and no subsequent weapons were put into space, and Norograd was made to pay reparations for the damage. This, however, did not end Norogradian nuclear weapons development, and at least fifteen underground and two above ground tests were conducted from 1975-1996, with a stockpile maintained for the purpose of self-defence
 
=== Ethalria===
After its formation in 1996, Axdel inherited 532 Norogradian sea and land based nuclear warheads. In 2000 they agreed to decommission and dismantle the weapons by 2025 as part of the Axdel-MBE Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. The weapons were decommissioned in 2019, and are to be dismantled by 2023. However, the nation officially maintains the facilities and materials necessary to design and construct new warheads on demand, and is sometimes considered a 'paranuclear' state in this regard.
===Oscrelia===
After the [[Thorntonist Oscrelia|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.
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