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Validity: Nations with WMD policy.
The @@CAPITAL@@ Project is looking for places to radiate into oblivion to test their ambitious new nuclear projects.
Option 1. "We should test them on @@ANIMAL@@ Island, as it's completely remote and no humans will be harmed", asserts Dr. @@RANDOMNAME@@, the eccentric lead engineer who seems to have bought a map and plastic @@ANIMAL@@ figures to illustrate @@HIS@@ point. "I mean, a few @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ in the island might be harmed, but they don't matter, do they?"
Result: small islands that were once tourist attractions now try to sell tickets to watch the weekly mushroom cloud
Option 2. Spymaster @@RANDOMNAME@@ quietly tip-toes into your office, wearing a dark cloak and sunglasses. "We should test them underground", @@HE@@ says quietly. "It would be much harder for other countries and national enemies to learn about these very useful and powerful weapons. Other than possibly some tree huggers moaning about groundwater contamination, I don't see any real downsides!"
Result: earthquakes are often actually nuclear weapon tests
Option 3. "How about we test them in space?" argues @@RANDOMNAME@@, a military official whose house is, for some reason, in the shape of a rocket. "Not only does nothing live there, not even @@ANIMALPLURAL@@, but it would announce our power to the world and make everyone fear and respect us. It is the perfect place to test this powerful weapon."
Result: astronomers often mistake nuclear weapons tests for supernova explosions
Enacts policy: Space Program
Option 4. General @@RANDOMNAME@@ marches into your office in @@HIS@@ full military uniform. "Why should we be blowing up our own precious land, or wasting them in outer space?" @@HE@@ thunders bombastically, decorated with so many medals on @@HIS@@ uniform that the compass on your desk is pointing at @@HIM@@. "If we're going to test them for use in war, we should just test them on our enemy Marche Noire! That would finally make Marche Noire and the entire world respect us. Might makes right, you know!"
Result: citizens of Marche Noire find nuclear duds in their gardens
Option 5. "The country's seriously even considering using these Weapons of Mass Murder?", exclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, a notorious anti-war activist wearing a "CIVILIAN LIVES MATTER" T-shirt made by a Tasmanian refugee collective. "We MUST destroy these superweapons NOW, or we will be nothing except cold-blooded killing machines! @@LEADER@@, just think of the thousands of innocent women and children that will inevitably perish whenever these doomsday machines are used!"
Result: the nation follows the policy of mutually unassured destruction
Removes policy: Weapons of Mass Destruction