Here's our story with this more than curious question that to most nations seem to think have an obvious answer. Not the case with Nucego.
After the Grand Event of Atomization in which the major powers of the world mutually assured each other's destruction, there are next to none left of the conventional large-scale nuclear weapons people understand as nuclear weapons, be they dropped from planes or launched from the planet's orbit or however else. They more or less don't exist far as we know, as don't their launch systems or production lines. We Nucegoans are frankly quite lucky that the planet itself wasn't busted in the process.
After forming Nucego, a union of self-owning, consciously egoistic individuals and a loose confederation of their settlements, we Nucegoans unlike many other communities chose to protect ourselves with the nuke. A small-sized tactical nuke catapulted from the shoulder, to be exact. Easy to use and mass-produce as the materials for them are practically everywhere, it became a staple for every Nucegoan to have at least one FatboiTM launcher with them and some mini nukes to go with it. Refined nuclear waste, some scrap metal and electronics for the hull and mechanisms of the launchers and bombs themselves and Nucego established its place on the wastes.
As we have practically centered our society around that ingenious piece of weaponry, rival settlements have curiously chosen to switch from exchanging bullets with us to goods and services. A welcoming improvement, to say the least. Refining the nuclear waste just sitting out there polluting was definitely worth it. In addition to the Fatboi and its mini nukes, for lack of a better term, radiological grenades and mines are another common means to defending ourselves. All aforementioned devices are produced and procured for by RecNukes Co-Operative Industries, our leading arms manufacturer and main competitor of Nukes4U incorporated.
Aside from just defending ourselves, these little nukes are so plenty in Nucego that target nuking has become a competitive sport here. A national sport with championships, even.
The Fatboi launcher is our lovechild and like any, has many names with Fat Man, Nuka-launcher, radiobazooka and Davy Crockett being the most common ones. Of course, the concept is as old as the atomic bomb itself and takes after from its previous concepts and prototypes, correcting and refining them. We hear of a similar concept developed by the metro dwellers in Russia called Project Tsaritsa's Tear, but our knowledge is limited to Russians arriving at our borders. It makes us Nucegoans happy to have comrades in arms abroad.
So if by any change you hear a fwump and see a bright light in the distance, don't worry: either some madman or -woman is getting their kicks from a power trip or a major threat to Nucego was just eliminated with a single trigger pull. Just enjoy the mushroom cloud, it's beautiful and makes you feel warm inside. Guaranteed!
Eclius wrote:Why exactly is this even a fact book question? I'm quite certain almost 99.9% of the nations do not allow civilian ownership of a weapon that is considered WMD......
Who cares? Even among them the answer is not just a simple no. There are different reasons and different ways to address the issue of recreational nukes, to be sure.