Nuclear Missile

Nuclear Missiles were weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) utilized by various forces across the Command and Conquer franchise. They were launched from an Allied/Soviet (RA1) or Soviet (RA2), or Chinese, nuclear missile silo in the Red Alert and Generals universes, or a Temple of Nod in the Tiberium universe. Regardless of origin and subsequent design differences, they were capable of inflicting horrendous and unstoppable damage upon their target. Some models leaked nuclear radiation into their impact site, thereby poisoning any who managed to survive the blast, though others were designed to be "cleaner" and affected areas could be traversed by troops shortly after the strike.
==History==
===Tiberium Universe===
The First Tiberium War had the Brotherhood first introduce their Temple of Nod. This happened in the final mission, Cradle of My Temple as GDI set their own mission in Sarajevo, naming it Temple Strike. The Temple of Nod launches a Nuclear Missile at any GDI base or major cities under control of Kane only. This was used to destroy any major site such as the White House, World Trade Center, Buckingham Palace or the Paris Tower. It was used again in the Second Tiberium War, Firestorm Crisis, Third Tiberium War, First Nod Reunification War and the Second Nod Reunification War to launch a missile at GDI or the Scrin. The Temple of Nod and its Nuclear Missile was never used again in the Ascension Conflict.
===Red Alert Universe===
Such time was made by Albert Einstein. The Second World War had both Allied and Soviet forces to have a Missile Silo. This can launch a Nuclear Missile at any target in its way. By this time of it, one of these crashed into the grounds of London because the Allies have destroyed a Missile Silo that was used by Premier Stalin to see Civilians all hit by the Nuclear pollution. Dugan, a leader of the United States tried to launch some Nuclear Missile Silos to kill Romanov and obliberate Moscow, but Yuri destroyed them when brainwashing Jerry Boyd in an attempt to launch a Nuke from inside. Premier Anatoly Cherdenko changed a Time Machine to never have defeat on Soviet territory, but General Krukov said to launch Nukes at the newly built Empire of the Rising Sun and was no use. The Vacuum Imploder has replaced the Nuclear Missile Silo in both the War of Three Powers and the Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising.
===Generals Universe===
Out of the three powers that participated in the first War Against the GLA, the People's Republic of China opted to utilize nuclear missiles as their signature superweapon.
The PLA's nuclear missile first appeared in the conflict as a part of a coalition garrison with the United States in an attempt to prevent their common enemy, the Global Liberation Army, from seizing the Baikonur Cosmodrome. However, even the combined might of the nuclear warhead, the US's own superweapon, and the garrison's troops were insufficient to hold the GLA back, and under the guidance of a brilliant GLA general they were overrun and the warheads captured or destroyed.
As the war dragged on, victory over the GLA by China seemed more assured by the day. With the former taking loss after loss, it was decided that one of the PLA's brightest generals was to take on the milestone of destroying the GLA's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Dunshanbe. For this monumental and difficult task, the general was entrusted with the full Chinese arsenal and, with it, the authority to construct and fire a nuclear missile at their now-hated enemies.
However, their victory that day did not mean the GLA had completely collapsed. It next surfaced in the war under the hands of a rogue Chinese general who had defected to the GLA. Once again, it was situated to aid in the defense of a joint garrison - this time of GLA and defected PLA forces - though this alliance ultimately met the same fate as its US-PLA predecessor, and failed to hold back the troops under the command of a renowned American general.
Despite the combined pressure of two superpowers, the GLA continued to prove a worthy foe for both of them. After the capture of the US's European command center in Stuttgart using stolen Chinese weaponry they withdrew from the war, leaving China the lone adversary of the GLA. Outraged by this use of their own weapons, the captured Stuttgart command center was severely damaged by a nuclear strike ordered by command, and the no longer victorious garrison wiped out by a contingent of ground troops.
The nuclear missile once again became an uncommon sight on battlefields, and it was not until the GLA's final defeat at Hamburg, Germany that it resurfaced under the command of the PLA general, who it used it to annihilate both the GLA presence and the American hardware they had captured.
By the time of the second War Against the GLA, China and their fellow Asia-Pacific Alliance members utilized a newer design of the nuclear missile silo, where the missile is now more conventionally stored underground. Little else is known about it, however.
Category:Superweapons