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- In the event of a zombie outbreak, the government may attempt to stop the spread of the outbreak through the use of nuclear weaponry as seen in World War Z, where Pakistan and Iran destroyed each other.
- Nuclear weapons, or nukes for short, are immensely powerful, one-use weapons in the Civilization games. They usually become available late in the game after players complete the Manhattan Project.
- Nations require a tech level of 75 or greater and an infrastructure level of 1,000 or greater in order to begin purchasing nuclear weapons. A nation must have uranium as a resource for production. A nation must also be ranked in the top 5% of all nations, or have the Manhattan Project (a national wonder). A player can only purchase 1 nuclear weapon per day, or 2 if they own a Weapons Research Complex.
- A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter; a modern thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than a thousand kilograms can produce an explosion comparable to the detonation of more than a million tons of conventional high explosive.
- The gravest human-made danger facing humanity could well be nuclear weaponry. There's little doubt that a full-scale nuclear war would kills hundreds of millions of people, and perhaps many more, rocking and potentially ending civilization as well know it. Whether such a war would lead to the actual extinction of humanity is a matter of debate. It would depend on range of factors that are so complex and interrelated that no one can say for certain how they would play out. There's no way to check the geological record for clues, as we can for asteroid strikes and the largest of volcanic eruptions.
- Nuclear Weapons are weapons that are usually used as a least resort to defend their nation. sometimes it is used in a war between two mighty countries like United States and Russia. The effects of Nuclear Weapons on a target country are: - Stability lowerd drasticly (For both countrys involved) - Military Units Killed - Production harmed by civillian deaths
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- In the event of a zombie outbreak, the government may attempt to stop the spread of the outbreak through the use of nuclear weaponry as seen in World War Z, where Pakistan and Iran destroyed each other.
- Nuclear Weapons are weapons that are usually used as a least resort to defend their nation. sometimes it is used in a war between two mighty countries like United States and Russia. The effects of Nuclear Weapons on a target country are: - Stability lowerd drasticly (For both countrys involved) - Military Units Killed - Production harmed by civillian deaths Note: Invading a nuclear power could trigger a nuclear first strike. Also the defender maintains control of all his nukes, even the ones in territory under military control of the invader. Even if the defender's country is totally overrun, he can still nuke the invader's homeland.
- Nuclear weapons, or nukes for short, are immensely powerful, one-use weapons in the Civilization games. They usually become available late in the game after players complete the Manhattan Project.
- Nations require a tech level of 75 or greater and an infrastructure level of 1,000 or greater in order to begin purchasing nuclear weapons. A nation must have uranium as a resource for production. A nation must also be ranked in the top 5% of all nations, or have the Manhattan Project (a national wonder). A player can only purchase 1 nuclear weapon per day, or 2 if they own a Weapons Research Complex.
- A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter; a modern thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than a thousand kilograms can produce an explosion comparable to the detonation of more than a million tons of conventional high explosive.
- The gravest human-made danger facing humanity could well be nuclear weaponry. There's little doubt that a full-scale nuclear war would kills hundreds of millions of people, and perhaps many more, rocking and potentially ending civilization as well know it. Whether such a war would lead to the actual extinction of humanity is a matter of debate. It would depend on range of factors that are so complex and interrelated that no one can say for certain how they would play out. There's no way to check the geological record for clues, as we can for asteroid strikes and the largest of volcanic eruptions. The only thing we know for certain is that a full-scale nuclear war would bring almost unimaginable human suffering on a global scale. First, there would be the victims of the immediate blasts. Second, there would be those made ill or killed by the radioactive fallout. Third, there are those who would be affected by the climate and other environmental changes that follow such a war. A nuclear winter could, for example, be similar to the volcanic winter described in the Super Eruptions section. Based on what occurred during the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts of World War II, we have an idea of the kind of devastation that would be wrought, although a modern nuclear war would result in catastrophe by many hundreds and perhaps thousands of times worse. Some experts simply assume it would result in a kind of doomsday for humanity. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has, in fact, created a symbolic representation of the danger humanity faces from nuclear weapons. Called the "Doomsday Clock", it is currently set at five minutes to midnight. The last time it moved, in 2007, it moved closer to midnight, aka "doomsday" as a result of various trends that the organization views as troubling. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists also provides estimates on the current global nuclear stockpile. For all the horror of nuclear war, however, it can be legitimately argued that nuclear weapons are essential to deterring nuclear attacks from other nations. It has even been argued that such weaponry has served to prevent another global scale war. Because the U.S. and other nations continue to defend nuclear weapons as playing a vital role in their national security plans, there's little hope that the global threat represented by these weapons will disappear soon. The U.S. position has in fact varied over time. For example, President Barak Obama stated on June 4, 2009 in his speech in Cairo, Egypt: "No single nation should pick and choose which nation holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons." On the other hand, the North Korean government threatened, on June 24, 2009 to "wipe out" the U.S. in the event of a war, The North Korean government also stated that if would consider interception of one of its ships, pursuant to a UN Security Council resolution, to be a declaration of war. While the North Korean threat lacks credibility due to the nascent state of their nuclear weapons program [citation needed], it is part of the ongoing escalation of tensions over this program. The risk of a conventional conflict escalating into a nuclear one exists in other areas of the world, e.g. India-Pakistan, as well.
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