Nuclear weapons state: Difference between revisions

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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 afterwell recovering and reverse engineering a number of Morstaybishlian weapons. A small, potent thermonuclear warhead designated N-1 was developed during the war for deployment in a ground-penetrating package on the controversial [[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 severalthe [[Ethalria (Grand Matriarchy)|Ethalrian]] military bases and the city of Ribenstadt werewas targeted by the weapon,. and whilstWhilst devastating, the satellite's unwieldy re-entry vehicles 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 an Axdel-MBEa 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.