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If all my orbital based, sea based and land based systems fail a large portion of my nations population would have already been evacuated in the first few days of war to the countrysides where we have a massive nuclear bunker system that is miles long and wide that can house millions of citizens or my people would have fled to the safety of their own bunker underneath their house nearly every citizen has once since it's customary now in these dark times. In times of war my nations military central command and important government staff are moved to a secure and hidden nuclear command bunker (in one of my largest mountains) anyway so they are quite safe from harm. I said once that I do not keep nuclear weapons but that was a lie (watch out we got a badass over here) we keep not many but around four hundred active nuclear missiles with the largest missiles having a yield of 25 megatons which isn't much to other nations but how many nukes do you really need to properly cripple someone? I only needed a few 45 kiloton nukes to end the nation of Dragomere. My primary nuclear deliver system is via navy submarines who each can carry quite a few nuclear missiles so deployment is quite easy but I do have simple missile silos for normal launch.

Three Words: Mutually Assured Destruction. No one would survive.

Dragonisia wrote:We go out and eat the ash of a scorched world and then conquer through breeding.

We already have done this.

New Tyran wrote:If all my orbital based, sea based and land based systems fail a large portion of my nations population would have already been evacuated in the first few days of war to the countrysides where we have a massive nuclear bunker system that is miles long and wide that can house millions of citizens or my people would have fled to the safety of their own bunker underneath their house nearly every citizen has once since it's customary now in these dark times. In times of war my nations military central command and important government staff are moved to a secure and hidden nuclear command bunker (in one of my largest mountains) anyway so they are quite safe from harm. I said once that I do not keep nuclear weapons but that was a lie (watch out we got a badass over here) we keep not many but around four hundred active nuclear missiles with the largest missiles having a yield of 25 megatons which isn't much to other nations but how many nukes do you really need to properly cripple someone? I only needed a few 45 kiloton nukes to end the nation of Dragomere. My primary nuclear deliver system is via navy submarines who each can carry quite a few nuclear missiles so deployment is quite easy but I do have simple missile silos for normal launch.

You would need a lot more to even harm my nation, you would need 500 100 mt nukes to damage my nation

Most missile based attacks would've been intercepted through missile defence systems, though we follow strict protocol in case of a missile detonation:

Several facilities co-ordinate with satellite systems to determine if their is further risk from any more missiles, and to determine launch sites
COMM status checks are broadcast to any frequencies still operating, and we attempt to make contact with all military and emergency service units as soon as possible
Facilities attempt to pinpoint the area of impact, blast areas, fallout areas, blast force and predicted casualties
DEFCON 1 declared
HVIs and senate ministers are taken to secure locations if not already evacuated
Emergency Broadcast systems are put into effect
Emergency services respond
All nuclear launch facilities are put on full alert, including SSBM units, orbiting stations and aircraft, and are directed via CENTCOM
Retaliatory strikes from orbital, naval, air and land based units are launched immediately
Armed services are mobilised and declare martial law
HAZMAT and CBRN units deployed
24 hour draft notice put into effect

Dragomere wrote:
You would need a lot more to even harm my nation, you would need 500 100 mt nukes to damage my nation

No, just twenty 45 kiloton nukes was all that was required.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Disproportionate retribution.

That is all.

However, it would take a lot to get past our defence systems.

Well around 90% of the population would probably be dead due to little to no resistance to radiation. The surviving 10% Were probably in the "Metal Continent"

The Bundespräsident would head to his secret bunker. The city would be quarantined, citizens would be helped.

We would nuke the person who nuked us shortly after.

Chezek wrote:How will your nation react after nuclear attacks?

The ground will sizzle and smoke will rise from it. Hopefully it will make interesting shapes as it drifts off into the sky.

The chances of our nation suffering from a nuclear attack are very low, due to our sophisticated anti-missile defenses.

Retaliation would be a given, but the cost of a war would have to be balanced with that of reconstruction.
There are bunkers in cities, so that if i missile was not destroyed, citizens would survive, but not all of them, sadly. The nation's resident population of giant monsters as a whole is very resilient, and would not be greatly affected by the attack.

Die, probably.

There has never been a successful nuclear attack on Olwe. We have a very good early-warning system, and extremely competent mages who teleport the nukes safely away (usually to allies of the nation who launched them, in order to put our enemies in a diplomatic quagmire).

We laugh as the nuke explodes on our multi-layered energy shields and enjoy the nuclear fireworks, then respond militarily. And that is if the nukes somehow make it past our laser satellites.

We'd help out the victims (if possible), then we would find the bastards who did it and reduce them to ash.

Happens too often to bother. Although our enemies have long since realized that there's no point in launching a massive thermonuclear bombardment of an enemy world, since they would have little use of an irradiated wasteland of plate glass afterwards, tactical micro-nukes can be a real pain, and the occasional multi-kiloton yield nuke can also considerably disrupt nearby operation, but not much more than that. Anyone going for true mass destruction would go for orbital bombardment anyway, mixing nukes with kinetic strikes and directed energy weapon fire.

Nukes used in our time are of the clean variety, producing minimal radioactive fallout. As said before, both we and our enemies have the sense not to contaminate our target world with highly-radioactive fallout and then watch our victorious troops drop like flies from radiation poisoning. Hence, whenever any are used, there isn't even much need for special area decontamination procedures - just wait a while (3 days at most) until most of the residual radiation disperses, or send in troops and decontamination teams in NBC protection gear.

A nuclear strike that would require global contingency protocols to be activated implies that the Army and Navy have done a really piss-poor job, or the enemy is simply so strong that we'd be fucked anyway even without any nukes or orbital strikes.

Nuke them back, duh.

*SMH*

I've been reading about this for ten years now. Literally.

My response would be thus:
1.)Use the massive stash of neutron bombs to microwave all organic life off of the offending land.
2.)Wait the six weeks to let the radiation dissipate to tolerable levels for new organic life.
3.)Repopulate the land with my own organic life. Probably criminals. Criminals make great colonists. Look at Australia. Nobody messes with Australia.

If a nuke gets passed the multitude of layers of systems designed not to let it happen, then the system would react accordingly and launch several nuclear warheads with a full spread of KKVs from 'Thor' satellites that are nearby that are armed with DU cored KKVs. The capital is safely underground and the various cities are actually arcology clusters specifically designed to resist such attacks, and the citizens would already be going into underground bunkers if something gets through the defense net.

If they persist then the full power of the nuclear arsenal would be unleashed and show the enemy the folly of using WMDs by using the cleanest ones in the arsenal (bio-war is considered the 'dirtiest' if you will).

Carpet nuking for lightly defended targets, planetary destruction and/or destruction of the systems star for everything else.
Any survivors will be cleansed.

In the event of a nuclear attack against the United Federations, the Founding President is notified that the elected President has failed so miserably at his job that someone thought it was a good idea to launch any nuclear weapon at the nation.

1. The SLAMS System is activated in order to shoot down any/all nuclear missiles approaching the nation.
2. In the event the SLAMS System fails (unlikely due to its impressive 100% anti-ballistic missile capability), citizens will be alerted to the threat within 5 minutes of detection.
3. Defensive protocols will be activated, citizens will be evacuated to bunker systems within the major cities, all aircraft will be scrambled to intercept any enemy air units.
4a. The President will be airborne within 10 minutes of the launch detection.
4b. The President may be overridden by the Founding President, and will immediately be removed from office due to the President's failure of providing the defense the citizens of the nation deserve.
5a. The President will coordinate counter-attacks and asses the damage done by enemy nuclear attacks (if any weapons get through the SLAMS System).
5b. The Founding President will coordinate counter-attacks and asses damage done by enemy nuclear attacks (assuming weapons have already gotten through).
6. The Founding President, by law, may execute the President as an enemy of the state if any citizen of the nation is to die via a nuclear attack in the United Federations homeland.
7. Counter-attacks will be issued by the Founding President against the enemy nation(s).
8a. Standard nuclear weapons and orbital strikes will be used against the enemy nation(s).
8b. If deemed necessary, orbital defense and research station Space Colony Ark will use its full weapon array to obliterate any target on or off-world.
9a. Recovery effort will be underway in order to remove any fallout that may have irradiated lands in the homeland.
9b. If Space Colony Ark is ordered to use its weapon array on the planet itself, there will be no recovery for any nation, as it will undoubtedly destroy the planet in its entirety.

most likely a very good portion of the population would die

idk try to survive

"Hmm. Must be garbage day."
*continues reading news papar*