List of States with Nuclear Weapons
1. United Kingdom - the first nation to develop them and the first nation to use them, after Operation Mincemeat lured Axis forces to Sardinia in 1943 and into the unwitting blast radius of "Bulldog". Italy's surrender was a direct result, though Germany called the Allies bluff ("Doberman" was indeed still in production) and an invasion of the Belgian coast was still necessary.
2. Iberian People's Republic - the first power to get nuclear weapons as a result of the Cold War arms race, Iberians had the urgency of obtaining nukes drilled into them due to their proximity to Sardinia and the casualties, radioactive debris, and refugees suffering from radiation poisoning that washed up on the Balearics after the attack. The consequences of a nuclear attack on the Peninsular did not trouble many after the horrors of the Civil War and the Pyrenees Campaign against the Germans: if nuclear weapons could prevent any more of that, then most Iberians were content.
3. Union of Sovereign States - first gained when it was still the communist USSR, the British said this was DEFINITELY from their spies in the IPR and DEFINITELY NOT spies in Britain. (The Cambridge Four scandal revealed otherwise.) Once a major nuclear power, the arsenal is now outdated as the Union's confederated politics and power blocks have delayed every upgrade in the past 25 years.
4. French Third Republic - or, as it is more commonly known, Algeria. Mainland France (obtaining the technology from the UK) officially denuclearised following the Treaty of Bilbao. However, its disowned child has clung onto theirs with a death-grip, needing them to prevent outside forces toppling their Pied-Noir dominated regime. Recent satellite photos indicate that a third bomb is being worked on, which follows from Governor Guérin-Sérac's bellicose and defiant stance.
5. United Arab Republic - another exception to the rule that nuclear weapons cannot be the only guarantee of a state's continued existence, yet perhaps the only one that has to guarantee against so many threats. Acquiring WMDs in the 1970s, its sole purpose was to provide a stalemate scenario in order to hold on to territorial gains made against Israel and to avoid a repetition of the UK's nuclear blackmail during the Suez Crisis. Since then however, they have uncut the methods with which the Arabs have perused every goal of there Foreign Policy, whether proxy war with Algeria in Libya, claims on the Nile against Sudan and, more important in recent years, the support of the Baathist regime in Iraq as it combats the Wahhabist insurgents backed by the Saudis during the Civil War there. The consequences of the latter has led for international calls for intervention against the Republic to remove its nuclear capacity for good.
6. Taiwan (People's Republic of China) - famously pulled a Cambridge Four on the USSR itself, ensuring it could develop its own "independent deterrent" in case, as happened, it ever lost its patron. It was the last country to do an open-air bomb test, to discourage the mainland from invading as the USSR became the USS in the 80s. It has a highly integrated defence network and national service to ensure any invasion of the predominant communist nation will go badly wrong even if you can stop one of their eight missiles landing on you.
7. Republic of Turkey - Hemmed in from the north by the former USSR and the Arab Republic to the south the Turkish Republic developed a sizable nuclear deterrent to secure its sovereignty. However as the decades have progressed it has used its nuclear leverage more and more on its surrounding states, such as gaining concessions from Greece for a joint authority arrangement in Cyprus and increasing its influence in the old Ottoman dominated territories of Southern Europe. This has led to increasing tensions with other European states and the worry is that Turkey will push its luck too far one of these days.
8. Democratic Commonwealth of Japan-After Japan was ground into a fine paste after the Second World War and having witnessed the power of a Nuclear Bomb themselves during the Invasion of Hokkaido it was decided that they should invest in one themselves. Partially funded and developed by Britain who preferred the Left Wing countries in Asia to be in nuclear stalemate though with a emphasis towards giving Japan a slight edge (this was due to Japan having become similar to Labour lead Britain). The Commonwealth has invested heavily into modernising there nuclear stockpile, relying on quality over quantity and is mostly about making sure they turn Taiwan, USS or the Chinese mainland into a chaotic nuclear hellhole if it calls for it.
9. Chile - the only one of the "N9" with no actual security reasons, as the Chilean nuclear missile system is entirely a vanity project. In a continent(s) with Argentina, the USA, and Chile as the three power players, Chile needed a new bit of gloss after their cybersyn program was surpassed by Buenos Aires. Being the only American nuclear power helped win the president his last election. The fact the United States is now thinking of restarting their nuclear program is unfortunate...
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THE TOP 7 MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILM ADAPTATIONS
1) Pride and Prejudice (1961, dir. Carl Rice)
Other than a handful of liberation films specifically about fighting ONLY GERMANS, British filmmakers had not touched on the occupation. Even the 'Free Cinema' movement, at the height of the 'people's kingdom' era, didn't touch on it, before Rice (who had been Reisz before needing to go into hiding and lost his parents to Nazi slaughter) didn't just touch, he rewrote a literary classic to be set during it. Here, Wickham is a quisling and social climber doing quite well out of the occupation; the much-mocked absence of the Napoleonic Wars in subtext becomes text, as the bulk of the cast manage to not mention the war or the swastikas; and Tom Courtenay's Darcy is gradually revealed to be in a resistance agent in the "Round Table".
The film was an international triumph, even in anti-socialist nations, but sparked furious debate (and a few fights) in Britain: being reminded not everyone had been a patriotic democratic socialist and many had profited for years made for some very awkward times for many people, who'd hoped to bury their feelings. The next film Rice did, he was credited as Reisz once more.
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1. United Kingdom - the first nation to develop them and the first nation to use them, after Operation Mincemeat lured Axis forces to Sardinia in 1943 and into the unwitting blast radius of "Bulldog". Italy's surrender was a direct result, though Germany called the Allies bluff ("Doberman" was indeed still in production) and an invasion of the Belgian coast was still necessary.
2. Iberian People's Republic - the first power to get nuclear weapons as a result of the Cold War arms race, Iberians had the urgency of obtaining nukes drilled into them due to their proximity to Sardinia and the casualties, radioactive debris, and refugees suffering from radiation poisoning that washed up on the Balearics after the attack. The consequences of a nuclear attack on the Peninsular did not trouble many after the horrors of the Civil War and the Pyrenees Campaign against the Germans: if nuclear weapons could prevent any more of that, then most Iberians were content.
3. Union of Sovereign States - first gained when it was still the communist USSR, the British said this was DEFINITELY from their spies in the IPR and DEFINITELY NOT spies in Britain. (The Cambridge Four scandal revealed otherwise.) Once a major nuclear power, the arsenal is now outdated as the Union's confederated politics and power blocks have delayed every upgrade in the past 25 years.
4. French Third Republic - or, as it is more commonly known, Algeria. Mainland France (obtaining the technology from the UK) officially denuclearised following the Treaty of Bilbao. However, its disowned child has clung onto theirs with a death-grip, needing them to prevent outside forces toppling their Pied-Noir dominated regime. Recent satellite photos indicate that a third bomb is being worked on, which follows from Governor Guérin-Sérac's bellicose and defiant stance.
5. United Arab Republic - another exception to the rule that nuclear weapons cannot be the only guarantee of a state's continued existence, yet perhaps the only one that has to guarantee against so many threats. Acquiring WMDs in the 1970s, its sole purpose was to provide a stalemate scenario in order to hold on to territorial gains made against Israel and to avoid a repetition of the UK's nuclear blackmail during the Suez Crisis. Since then however, they have uncut the methods with which the Arabs have perused every goal of there Foreign Policy, whether proxy war with Algeria in Libya, claims on the Nile against Sudan and, more important in recent years, the support of the Baathist regime in Iraq as it combats the Wahhabist insurgents backed by the Saudis during the Civil War there. The consequences of the latter has led for international calls for intervention against the Republic to remove its nuclear capacity for good.
6. Taiwan (People's Republic of China) - famously pulled a Cambridge Four on the USSR itself, ensuring it could develop its own "independent deterrent" in case, as happened, it ever lost its patron. It was the last country to do an open-air bomb test, to discourage the mainland from invading as the USSR became the USS in the 80s. It has a highly integrated defence network and national service to ensure any invasion of the predominant communist nation will go badly wrong even if you can stop one of their eight missiles landing on you.
7. Republic of Turkey - Hemmed in from the north by the former USSR and the Arab Republic to the south the Turkish Republic developed a sizable nuclear deterrent to secure its sovereignty. However as the decades have progressed it has used its nuclear leverage more and more on its surrounding states, such as gaining concessions from Greece for a joint authority arrangement in Cyprus and increasing its influence in the old Ottoman dominated territories of Southern Europe. This has led to increasing tensions with other European states and the worry is that Turkey will push its luck too far one of these days.
8. Democratic Commonwealth of Japan-After Japan was ground into a fine paste after the Second World War and having witnessed the power of a Nuclear Bomb themselves during the Invasion of Hokkaido it was decided that they should invest in one themselves. Partially funded and developed by Britain who preferred the Left Wing countries in Asia to be in nuclear stalemate though with a emphasis towards giving Japan a slight edge (this was due to Japan having become similar to Labour lead Britain). The Commonwealth has invested heavily into modernising there nuclear stockpile, relying on quality over quantity and is mostly about making sure they turn Taiwan, USS or the Chinese mainland into a chaotic nuclear hellhole if it calls for it.
9. Chile - the only one of the "N9" with no actual security reasons, as the Chilean nuclear missile system is entirely a vanity project. In a continent(s) with Argentina, the USA, and Chile as the three power players, Chile needed a new bit of gloss after their cybersyn program was surpassed by Buenos Aires. Being the only American nuclear power helped win the president his last election. The fact the United States is now thinking of restarting their nuclear program is unfortunate...
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THE TOP 7 MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILM ADAPTATIONS
1) Pride and Prejudice (1961, dir. Carl Rice)
Other than a handful of liberation films specifically about fighting ONLY GERMANS, British filmmakers had not touched on the occupation. Even the 'Free Cinema' movement, at the height of the 'people's kingdom' era, didn't touch on it, before Rice (who had been Reisz before needing to go into hiding and lost his parents to Nazi slaughter) didn't just touch, he rewrote a literary classic to be set during it. Here, Wickham is a quisling and social climber doing quite well out of the occupation; the much-mocked absence of the Napoleonic Wars in subtext becomes text, as the bulk of the cast manage to not mention the war or the swastikas; and Tom Courtenay's Darcy is gradually revealed to be in a resistance agent in the "Round Table".
The film was an international triumph, even in anti-socialist nations, but sparked furious debate (and a few fights) in Britain: being reminded not everyone had been a patriotic democratic socialist and many had profited for years made for some very awkward times for many people, who'd hoped to bury their feelings. The next film Rice did, he was credited as Reisz once more.
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