Nuclear warfare

Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy which deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction; in contrast to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can produce destruction in a much shorter time and can have a long-lasting radiological result. A major nuclear exchange would have long-term effects, primarily from the fallout released, and could also lead to a "nuclear winter" that could last for decades, centuries, or even millennia after the initial attack.
To date, the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict occurred in June of 2000, when Centrallia dropped one nuclear bomb on the Klamosseni city of Makdafia, during the Centrallian War. The closest the world had previously been to nuclear warfare was in 1947, during the last months of the Great War. After Blostia refused to surrender as Allied troops marched into the capital, Poland, wishing to show off their nuclear arms, threatened to anhiliate Blostia if a surrender was not agreed to. Blostia initially refused, but after it's military was overwhelmed with an influx of Polish troops, they agreed to a peace treaty.
== Types of nuclear warfare ==
The possibility of using nuclear weapons in war is usually divided into two subgroups, each with different effects and potentially fought with different types of nuclear armaments.
The first, a limited nuclear war (sometimes attack or exchange), refers to the controlled use of nuclear weapons, whereby the implicit threat exists that a nation can still escalate their use of nuclear weapons. For example, using a small number of nuclear weapons against strictly military targets could be escalated through increasing the number of weapons used, or escalated through the selection of different targets. Limited attacks are thought to be a more credible response against attacks that do not justify all-out retaliation, such as an enemy's limited use of nuclear weapons.
The second, a full-scale nuclear war, could consist of large numbers of nuclear weapons used in an attack aimed at an entire country, including military, economic, and civilian targets. Such an attack would almost certainly destroy the entire economic, social, and military infrastructure of the target nation, and would likely have a devastating effect on Terrania's biosphere.
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