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With a hypothetical nuclear world war, there are two potential scenarios: apocalyptic and non-apocalyptic.

With the apocalyptic scenario, the People's Republic of Zhouran would simply fire at any nations deemed as aggressors. Regardless if first-strike or second-strike, the Strategic Weapons Command of the Zhouranese People's Army would simply fire most, if not, all of the nation's massive nuclear stockpile as part of Mutual Assured Destruction. Thanks to a massive nuclear warhead stockpile along with state-of-the-art road-mobile and silo-launched multiple-warhead ICBMs, the Strategic Weapons Command can pull off something such as the Strategic Double-Layered Rapid-Response Nuclear Strike Maneuver, which allows Zhouran to incapacitate any and all nuclear powers with ease, regardless of how efficient an opponent's anti-ballistic missile defense capability can be.

In regards to the non-apocalyptic scenario, thanks to Zhouran's highly-controversial "First Strike Policy", commanders can request for approval from the People's Defense Council to use strategic and tactical nuclear weapons for preemptive nuclear strike. While Zhouran does excel in both strategic and tactical nuclear warfare, the military already excels in combined-arms warfare, and combining that with nuclear warfare basically adds further sharpness to the already-deadly "Glorious Ayanjiamujuela of Triumphant Judgement". The Zhouranese People's Army utilizes a vast array of highly-sophisticated military equipment designed to keep the military successful against competitors in the global arms race. The Scientific Military Research Bureau, an advanced military research agency subordinate to the People's Defense Council, is responsible for the research and development of new technologies for military use, as well as forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements. The People's Republic of Zhouran spends around NS$732.8 billion annually to fund the Zhouranese People's Army. Thanks to its advanced and sophisticated equipment, as well as its massive blue-water navy and significant aviation capability, Zhouran has significant force projection capabilities. This element is very crucial to the nation's power, diplomatic credibility and national interests. The Zhouranese People's Army not only has an highly-impressive conventional strength of force but also lethal nuclear capability that can shatter even the most well-prepared major powers in a matter of minutes, if not, seconds. In a potential nuclear war, the combined-arms firepower and state-of-the-art equipment combined with nuclear warfare allows the ZPA to not only inflict destruction at the opponent's homeland but even decimate enemy forces in an irradiated battlefield and bring the nuclear apocalypse to the enemy's homeland.

When it comes to nuclear defense, Zhouran itself is a leading nation in underground tunnel systems for the event of nuclear war. Because the People's Republic of Zhouran places a strong emphasis on defensive posture (large military on constant alert, large available pool of volunteers willing to join the military, very-high gun-ownership rate, nuclear deterrence with first-strike policy, highly-active air-defense network, etc.), public shelters can be found anywhere in the country, from rural to suburbs and even in urban areas. The most common type would be the Central Emergency Complex. Public shelters such as central emergency complexes can be found almost anywhere, from schools to small rural towns to busy city streets and even nice suburban neighborhoods as well. As a result, military analysts describe Zhouran as "one massive fortress" with many calling the nation a "supersize Israel, Singapore and Switzerland combined". While the current number of public shelters is unknown, it is estimated to be up to the hundred-thousands, with the number of central emergency complexes numbering at the thousands. The Ministry of National Emergency states that the entire 285,480,000 population can be fitted inside the public shelters including the central emergency complexes.

When it comes to anti-ballistic missile defense, the Aerospace Defense Command of the ZPA Air Force maintains an impressive array of highly-sophisticated air-defense missiles systems, radar systems, warning installations, and even anti-missile laser systems as well. Various intelligence-gathering stations monitor rocket launches and space objects while providing information to Zhouran's Space Intelligence Network and National Missile Warning Network, as a result the nation keeps an eye out for any ballistic missile launches that could potentially harm world peace and trigger a nuclear war.

With a large powerful combined-arms military that utilizes a wide array of advanced equipment and lethal conventional- and nuclear-firepower together with a highly-active air-defense network, a sophisticated network of air-defense intel monitoring, and an extremely-lethal nuclear deterrent capable of shattering any and all anti-ballistic missile defense systems, Zhouran is capable of inflicting nuclear apocalypse at any nations regarded as "threats to the existance of the Zhouranese People & Nation", turning even a powerful nuclear-armed power into nothing more than a mere irradiated graveyard of ashes and nuclear nightmare.