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*{{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 from 2018 until 2022, when Kostromastan's successor nation Volova reasserted control over the nuclear weapons. Posol Industries no longer possesses nuclear weapons.

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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 on the [[Kevatuul]] satellite, a first strike system designedwith 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]] citiescity andof militaryRibenstadt bases werewas 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.