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=== Nuclear ===
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Government-sponsored nuclear research in Cryria dates back to 1941 with the founding of the King Albert Materials Institute in Leidenstad. Early experiments with nuclear material were also conducted by civilian researchers at the University of Leidenstad. It was not until after Ethalrian nuclear tests in the 1950s that KAMI was directed by the Ministry of Defense to examine what was known about these new weapons. The Institute's final report would initiate discussions within the Cryrian Government regarding the peaceful and military uses of nuclear technology. Although the military interests in nuclear technology remained shrouded in secrecy, close connections soon formed between it and a civilian nuclear program run by the Ministry of Energy due to both a need to share limited resources and expertise, as well as a desire to conceal military nuclear activities beneath civilian ones. This unique Military-Civil relationship would come to define the Cryrian nuclear program throughout its history.
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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.
Ademar's Gate was intended swiftly develop testable nuclear devices before serious opposition could coalesce. However, the project was detected by the Älemsi government which in turn sought to pressure the Cryrian government into making concessions in the Northern Waters Dispute. This would eventually help lead to the Second Yeralik Crisis.
The Crisis was concluded with the signing of the Solstice Accords. The published versions of the Accords made no reference to the nuclear program, which itself was never publicly acknowledged by the Cryrian government. However, the Accords did see the transfer of nuclear reactors and technology to Älemsi Negdel, and it is thought that other restrictions and inspection regimes were implemented on the weapons program to satisfy Älemsi worries. It is unlikely that these restrictions were intended to wholly stop the development of Cryrian nuclear weapons however, as the Fara Incident took place roughly three months later without protests from the Älemsi government.
==Major Installations==
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