Does your nation own/are working on nukes?

[Frenequesta]

FRENEQUESTA MINISTRY OF MILITARY AND DEFENSE UNOFFICIAL REQUEST NOTE

Atomic weaponry is virtually archaic in Frenequesta, although we do have some in museums and government warehouses.

Everything else is strictly under wraps.

--Lie Feng, Minister of Military and Defense

[Seiru]

We are working on nuclear power plants and hydrogen fuel cells, but we have no nukes.

[Kronikta]

Psh! Nukes are sooo primitive

[The Parthians]

We have nuclear weapons, in case of attack: seven bombs and 172 missiles. The largest of the bombs is 1.2 times the size of Tsar Bomba.

I feel it would be my duty as an established nuclear power to inform you that this is not a wise way to go about a nuclear arsenal.
Such weapon sizes are frankly just a waste of fissile material that could be better used producing a number of much smaller warheads. Remember that a weapon just a few kilotons in yield can devastate a city or military formation.

If you have a weapon significantly larger than maybe 2-5Mt in yield, you're probably getting into wasteful territory. A 5Mt weapon should deal with almost any hardened structure, or certainly impair its effectiveness, and a targeted campaign of low-yield weapons (especially hundred-kiloton MIRVs over a city) will be a much more efficient use of material and launch vehicles.

High yield nukes have their uses. Groundbursting them is a good way of knocking out even really heavily fortified blast shelters used by political leaders or nuclear command and control assets. The US, until very recently, maintained 50 B53 nuclear bombs with a yield of 10 megatons or so designed primarily to attack the Soviet leadership bunkers at Chekhov/Sharapovo. The USSR had even larger 25MT ones on the R-36/SS-18 to strike NORAD or Raven Rock.

That said, for all other uses, multiple, low yield bursts are much more effective than a single big one due to the inverse squares rule.

[Lunaka]

No, but we used to, during the Cold War.

[The United Coalition of Systems]

The United Coalition of Systems is much more interested in space based kinetic kill weapons (i.e. railguns and "Rods from God") as they have proved more reliable and more economical while still maintain a high destructive potential.

[The Electoral College]

The Davis Amendment prohibits the procurement, storage, development or operation of nuclear weapons or warheads on territory under the sovereignty of the Federation.

[Andaricus]

Yes, Andaricus does own and manufacture Nuclear, Biological, Bio-Genetic, Chemical, Cold Fussion weaponry and others. We admit it openly and with restraint that We as a nation will defend our Citizens with these weapons without a second thought if badly enought threatened.

[Equalium]

Under Section 3 of Article 5 of Military policies, nations that are in the Farcheestian Union, follow the law that Nuclear Weapons are banned from every country in the FU. Therefore, Equalium has, and is not allowed to have, sport or hold nuclear weapons.

[The Presidium]

Nuclear weaponry?

Yeah right, like thats going to happen any time soon.

[Samozaryadnyastan]

I feel it would be my duty as an established nuclear power to inform you that this is not a wise way to go about a nuclear arsenal.
Such weapon sizes are frankly just a waste of fissile material that could be better used producing a number of much smaller warheads. Remember that a weapon just a few kilotons in yield can devastate a city or military formation.

If you have a weapon significantly larger than maybe 2-5Mt in yield, you're probably getting into wasteful territory. A 5Mt weapon should deal with almost any hardened structure, or certainly impair its effectiveness, and a targeted campaign of low-yield weapons (especially hundred-kiloton MIRVs over a city) will be a much more efficient use of material and launch vehicles.

High yield nukes have their uses. Groundbursting them is a good way of knocking out even really heavily fortified blast shelters used by political leaders or nuclear command and control assets. The US, until very recently, maintained 50 B53 nuclear bombs with a yield of 10 megatons or so designed primarily to attack the Soviet leadership bunkers at Chekhov/Sharapovo. The USSR had even larger 25MT ones on the R-36/SS-18 to strike NORAD or Raven Rock.

That said, for all other uses, multiple, low yield bursts are much more effective than a single big one due to the inverse squares rule.

Yes, but of course remember that the only state to still field a 20Mt warhead (or at least admit to it) are the Chinese.
A 60Mt warhead (the largest the Haydenish Peoples field) has few uses, unless you want to use specific aspects of a nuclear weapon such as thermal pulse, flash and fallout potential rather than radiation or blast.

[What-the]

We have no nukes instead we are all about infiltrating and disrupting the enemy, using any gained knowledge to our advantage. The nation of What-the does however invest in, use and sell nuclear power technologies.

[Jacobios]

We have 30 nuclear weapons which are located in undisclosed, classified military bases across the nation.

[Star Trek America]

La Republique maintains a stockpile of nuclear weapons, yes.

[Democratic Cascadia]

We currently possess a small number of nuclear weapons which we inherited from former United States.