Nuke (CTP1)

Nuke
Attack	Special
Ranged	0
Defend	1
Moves	20
Vision	1
Cost	4000
Required advances	Quantum Physics
Made obsolete by	Nanite Defuser
Other attributes	Destroys 75% of City Population, All Units and Tile Improvements Within 1 Tile 1 Turn of Fuel

The Nuke is a unit in Civilization: Call to Power.

Summary

The Nuke destroys everything, at a price. Developed as the ultimate weapon, the Nuke obliterates its target, but spawns fear and horror throughout the world - and ravishes the world's ecology. There is no other unit that can equal the Nuke in destructive power. Submarines and Stealth Submarines may transport nukes. Bombers and Stealth Bombers may also transport nukes by loading them into cargo at air bases.

Great Library entry

In the 1930s, Otto Hahn's conclusive evidence of fission precipitated a growing fascination with the capabilities and implications of its power. Einstein and Neils Bohr, two of America's greatest physicists, met at Princeton to discuss the implications of the new fission. Days later, Bohr briefed Enrico Fermi on the new experiment, and Fermi in turn suggested that the splitting might create further neutrons to feed back on the process – creating the possibility of a cascade reaction – an atomic bomb. With the beginning of World War II in 1939, a terrifying race to develop an atomic bomb ensued. On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was used in combat. The devastation and death toll that followed in the wake of that bomb alerted the world that the door to global destruction had just been opened.

See also

• Nuke in other games