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Nuclear Weapons Taboo	comment	The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed an estimated 110,000-120,000 people and established that Nuclear Weapons were in the same category as chemical weapons (used in World War I) and biological weapons (tested by the Japanese on POWs and Chinese civilians in World War II). Within just a few years of the bombings, media coverage of them resulted in what Nina Tannenwald has dubbed The Nuclear Taboo (2007): a reluctance to use nuclear weapons, regardless of the practical benefits, because it makes the user look evil. After all, there is no denying that biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons kill people in a number of horrible ways — and that they are usually ranked in that order of horribleness. On one hand, the aversion to nuclear weapons in Japan is understandable given the mark they made on their history. That said, the apparent fixation on the bombing tends to come across as blatant efforts to not only deflect from the fact that Imperial Japan was the aggressor, but to also deflect from their extensive war crimes and associated atrocities in Asia and the Pacific such as the aforementioned bioweapon testing, with the total amount of victims from these atrocities being estimated at least a dozen million.note The exact figures are lost to time, mainly due to the fact that one of the last major actions of the Imperial Japanese Military was to purge as many documents regarding their...less than wholesome activities as possible, to avoid having it be used against them in trials for war crimes. Not helping matters is that outside of the most directly affected countries such as China, Taiwan, the two Koreas, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, the world public has generally been left in the dark about these atrocities because the West's need for a Far East ally in the Cold War ultimately has enabled numerous attempts to white-wash Japan's role and conduct in the Pacific War. To add insult to injury, even many (though not a majority) Westerners who are aware of Imperial Japan's atrocities falsely see the atomic bombings as morally equivalent.note Generally speaking, this sort of "eye for an eye" mindset, or the concept of comparing war crimes in general, tends to fall apart under examination—discounting the obvious that wartime atrocities are not something that one should callously compare like baseball cards. As terrible as both the bombings and Imperial Japan's war crimes are, the fact of the matter remains that the former was a decisive action that ended the war (or at least greatly helped to end it) in lieu of a conventional battle that would have extended the conflict already going on four years and counting and would have cost many more lives, and is still well-documented today, while the latter was a much more extensive series of actions, each of which could have warranted a war crimes tribunal on its own and had much more personal, jingoistic motivations which were decidedly not an alternative to a costly conventional invasion (and in fact likely made their conquests less efficient and more costly) and which there is much less documentation about even today due to the Imperial Japanese Military, as mentioned above, doing their damnedest to destroy as much evidence as possible to avoid responsibility for their actions. In essence, the sheer scale, horror, and outright sadism of the two actions cannot be compared. Also while the US has generally downplayed the more ethically questionable reasons for the bombings, Japan has actively denied many of their war crimes to the point many Japanese citizens are ignorant of them. Needless to say, any apologia for Imperial Japan's atrocities is typically not well-received by countries whom were victims of said atrocities, to say nothing of the former Allied POWs and their relatives and descendants. Accordingly, any time a series needs a powerful Forgotten Superweapon, rather than an actual nuclear weapon (even if those are available) a bit of Applied Phlebotinum will be introduced that has the destructive effects of a nuclear weapon but a different name. Great pains will frequently be taken to stress that these aren't actual nuclear weapons, even if they can level whole cities and/or destroy the world. Any series that does decide to use nuclear weapons will usually portray them as A Bad Thing that must be avoided (or destroyed) at all costs, and only used by the evilest of villains or the most desperate of "good" guys and often in the latter case is to no effect to demonstrate that whatever being faced isn't something you can just throw nukes at until it goes away. This taboo is even stronger in Japanese works, where the Three Non-Nuclear Principles are generally portrayed as being upheld long into the future in all but the most pessimistic of stories. So far, this is Truth in Television. No nuclear weapons have been used in armed conflict since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Two small direct wars (USSR vs China during the Sino-Soviet split and India vs Pakistan during the Kargil War) and several more proxy wars have been fought between nuclear powers without nuclear deployments taking place, though NATO doctrine for a hypothetical land war in Europe mandated the use of battlefield ['tactical'] nuclear weapons (as did Soviet doctrine in the early-late 1960s). Contrast our modern attitude about nuclear weapons to fiction of the pre-war eras in which devastating super-weapons were romanticized to the point of being able to end all war forever. For example, Alfred Nobel believed that if such a tremendously powerful weapon could be devised, the potential war casualties would become so high when compared to any possible gains that nations of the world would abandon warfare altogether. First this super-weapon was said to be the machine gun,note Or the Gatling gun more specifically; though Gatling's intent for the weapon wasn't to terrorize people away from war, but to replace multitudes of soldiers with a single device; essentially, instead of a platoon of soldiers firing single-shot long guns, you would only have maybe one or two men manning a single rapid-firing weapon. Unfortunately for Gatling, he didn't consider the possibility that future armies may just equip every soldier on the battlefield with a rapid-firing weapon. then bomber aircraft, and when atomic bombs appeared at the end of the Second World War, military and political leaders considered them to be simply big bombs. Strategically useful yes (one plane could now do the work of hundreds), but not inherently different than any other munition. Then came the hydrogen bomb, aka thermonuclear weapons, a weapon even more powerful. For comparison, atomic bombs tend to be limited to kilotons, while hydrogen bombs are measured in megatons; hundreds of times more powerful (see also: Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure). This combined with advances in rocket delivery systems finally made it feasible for man to actually destroy civilization.note Fears of actual species-wide extinction even in a nuclear war have since been revealed to be unlikely; Mother Nature is incredibly resilient, given that the planet has been dealing with natural sources of radiation since its formation, and the global ecosystem is much harder to significantly disrupt then it seems. Same goes for humanity itself, though the lasting effects of a nuclear war would likely set society overall back by a century, at the very least. To an extent, those former dreams were at last realized: the threat of nuclear war has helped keep the major powers at peace for 70 years. We finally created a weapon we are actually too scared to use. Unfortunately this hasn't ended war altogether, but wars of the most devastating type seen in the 20th century haven't been seen since. If there is a weapon treated in a similar manner to nuclear ones but isn't referred to as such not because of censorship, but because it doesn't make sense in that setting, it's a Fantastic Nuke. Almost any series involving a Wave-Motion Gun involves this.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_10d303a2	comment	Shin Megami Tensei IV brings up nukes again. 25 years prior to the beginning of the game, the Angels order a nuclear attack on Tokyo, but Masakado creates the Firmanent to save Tokyo. You later go into two Alternate Timelines to witness what would've happened if the Firmament hadn't been raised up: Either the Angels and nukes are destroyed, but Tokyo is rendered an infernal Might Makes Right society, or Tokyo gets nuked to the ground and the remaining survivors hole up in a shelter in Shinjuku for protection.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time dances very, very carefully around this, having a Mushroom War in its backstory and a distinctly After the End setting, while very carefully avoiding any reference to nuclear weapons as such - the word 'mushroom' is the closest we get, though there are implications in the background lore that the nature of the war itself was not completely mundane.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_12ffd3e9	comment	Megas XLR has nukes in its arsenal, with warning labels around the Big Red Button. Coop wants to press it anyway, even when he and the enemy are in an underground military base at the time. Kiva insists that the nukes are not to be used, to Coop's disappointment.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_1469522d	comment	Averted in Sunless Skies. The spacefaring New British Empire boasts that it used an "Unclear Bomb" to kill a star, and is quite proud of the feat. Unclear Bombs apparently share many similarities with nuclear bombs, but they emit darkness instead of light when they explode. However, in a major questline that involves trying to figure out why so many supposedly immortal stars are dying, it is revealed that the New British Empire lied about using the Unclear Bomb, and the star they claim to have killed had already been assassinated by another party centuries earlier. The bomb is real, however, and the Queen still has it.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_18c9a898	comment	Averted in Star Control. The Earthling Cruiser's primary weapon is a slow homing nuclear missile. Humanity's stockpile of nukes is the main reason they are considered a threat/asset of any kind by the other races. They are however a Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke since quite a few ships can take more than one of them before going down.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_1fa45640	comment	Rise of the Reds: In-universe, all of the world powers are nuclear powers except for the GLA. However the European Continental Alliance only employ theirs as an absolute last resort for if and when they're about to lose. Played straight with Russia; when the country was nuked by the French and General Aleksandr promised to retaliate and burn all of Europe to radioactive cinders, the Russian government promptly yanked control of the nuke arsenal away from him and gave it to the more restrained and sane General Zhukov. The United States meanwhile are quite conflicted about the use of nuclear weapons in warfare, which isn't surprising given their history with them and their doctrine about using precision weapons to prevent collateral damage. In fact when hostilities broke out between Russia and Europe, the presidents of the two nations admitted over the Washington-Moscow hotline that neither had the heart to use their nukes, though, though major American population centers are still evacuated and a massive amount of anti-missile killsats are being launched from Cape Canaveral in record time. China however has no such taboo on nuclear weapons use — in fact Nuke 'em and Kill It with Fire is their MO (along with Zerg Rush of course). And the GLA, while incapable of building their own nukes, are perfectly capable of stealing them with Bomb Trucks and turning them into nuclear suicide units.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_23553960	comment	This factors into the gameplay of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which has a Karma Meter in the form of Heroism and Demon scores. Building nuclear weapons causes a sharp decrease to your Heroism score and an equal increase to your Demon score, while disarming nuclear weapons increases Heroism while decreasing your Demon score. A hidden cutscene is also rewarded in the event that all players in the game's asynchronous multiplayer component disarm every nuke between them.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_2ae406c1	comment	Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri has nukes by another name - Planet Busters. The first two tiers of Planet Busters explicitly use fission and fusion, respectively, before moving on to exotic physics warheads. They have even more devastating effects on the target and the environment (i.e. any city hit with one is completely wiped out, leaving behind a massive crater, unlike Civilization, where the effects are a little more tame). Using one is an unforgivable atrocity, however, and results in everybody declaring war vendetta on you.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_2c773285	comment	The backstory of Dai-Guard involves an "O.E. bomb" being used to destroy the original Heterodyne. There's plenty of angst in the series itself about when or whether the military should use one again.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_2d1fc03d	comment	Front Mission 3 had the MIDAS system which was developed as a new power source, but can be used as an energy-based bomb that rivalled a nuke in power, but would be considered a conventional weapon by existing treaties. Having such a weapon made various world governments very interested.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_2f3eb71f	comment	Command & Conquer: Generals: Averted, the Chinese army is all too happy to use nuclear power, whether to power their buildings, their tanks, or just fire nuclear missiles. Their second artillery vehicle also lobs nuclear shells. One campaign level even has a rogue general join the GLA and fire a nuke at American troops (China having authorized the Americans to take out the rogue), while another has China give GLA turncoats nukes (which are reclaimed by the player's GLA and used to kill the traitors). The Expansion Pack features a Chinese General whose preference is nuclear weapons. His tanks use enriched Uranium shells, he has better (if more expensive) nuclear reactors and always has the Nuke Cannon (aforementioned artillery vehicle). Fittingly, his base is located near a deserted town (which even sports 2 of the stolen nuclear trucks that can be captured if the player is very smart) and radiation puddles are everywhere.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_3a596334	comment	Subverted in the first Shin Megami Tensei game. Not only are nukes referred to all the time, but partway through the game, a nuke gets dropped on Tokyo by the American ambassador who is really working for God, and the next parts of the game are 30 years later in the ruins. Shin Megami Tensei IV brings up nukes again. 25 years prior to the beginning of the game, the Angels order a nuclear attack on Tokyo, but Masakado creates the Firmanent to save Tokyo. You later go into two Alternate Timelines to witness what would've happened if the Firmament hadn't been raised up: Either the Angels and nukes are destroyed, but Tokyo is rendered an infernal Might Makes Right society, or Tokyo gets nuked to the ground and the remaining survivors hole up in a shelter in Shinjuku for protection.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_44fe781e	comment	N2 (Non-Nuclear) mines in Neon Genesis Evangelion are an In-Universe example, although they have a much smaller radius of effect than actual nukes. And the lack of radioactive fallout would be quite useful when they have to be deployed inside Tokyo-3. Jet Alone is an alternative anti-Angel weapon project: a large remotely controlled armed robot that uses a nuclear reactor as a power source, which is treated by Dr. Akagi as a major liability. So while Jet Alone isn't a nuclear weapon in the classic sense, it is a nuclear-powered weapon. The taboo comes into play when NERV sabotages Jet Alone's first public demonstration, causing it to go haywire and charge haphazardly towards Old Tokyo, ignoring commands to reestablish remote control, all while its reactor threatens to catastrophically melt down. Fortunately Shinji and Misato avert a potential tragedy.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_45819f20	comment	In Warzone 2100, a nuclear war inflicted by a madman is what made the world the mess it's in now. And he still has nukes, so your Project forces are compelled to kill him with no mercy.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_467c89f7	comment	It's notable that while Reaction weaponry is tremendously powerful, and capable of rending apart Zentradi warships, that this is NOT particularly powerful by Zentradi standards: in the second episode of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, they manage to initiate a long range bombardment of a specific city on a specific planet with extreme accuracy from the distance of the lunar orbit with little problem, and later in the show a Zentradi fleet reduces an inhabited planet's surface to glass without actually using the forbidden Reaction weaponry. However, the big deal about reaction weaponry is that they're small enough that they can be easily carried even by small fighters.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_49aa2aa4	comment	The original Ace Combat setting, Strangereal, is supposed to be an alternate universe of our Earth with approximately equal level of technological advancement. However, the only nation that apparently has ever developed its own nukes is Belka (essentially an alternate Nazi Germany) and even then their warheads counted in single digits, not the thousands that world powers possess in Real Life today. For this reason, Strangereal's two superpowers Osea and Yuktobanian (counterparts of the US and Soviet Union) could duke it out in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War in what would have basically become World War III in our world, without risking a nuclear apocalypse. In fact, when Belkan remnants try to use their remaining nuclear warheads in that war, the hostilities soon cease and everyone gangs up on the Belkans instead. That Ace Combat was developed by the Japanese company Bandai-Namco probably explains things. In fact, the reason the Ace Combat world erupts in large scale conflicts every few years is precisely because concepts like MAD and nuclear deterrence do not exist. Nations do not have the devastating power that nukes provide to counter-act aggression*the various superweapons designed to shoot down asteroids supposedly fill the role nukes do, but completely fail at it due to A) always being a complete secret until someone tries to use it to end a war, and B) being unable to turn the tide far enough to actually win the war before the protagonist blows it up and saves the day, and wars erupt as a result. Belka is the only nation stated to have used nukes in a war. During the events of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, in an act of desperation, they resorted to dropping nukes on 7 of their own cities to try and delay the allied advance. The rest of the world was horrified at this, and may explain the world's preference for other types of weaponry. Backstory seems to suggest that nuclear weapons were not developed until the 1980s, instead of the 1930s and 1940s as in real life. Though nuclear power was apparently developed much earlier (nuclear submarines and reactors exist), which leads to a bit of a headscratcher as to why the technology was weaponized so late - presumably there was never any conflict on a large enough scale with a desperate enough situation before then to necessitate trying it (seeing as the Belkan War of 1995 is more or less Ace Combat's World War II). Even when Namco changed over to the real world in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, they played this trope straight. The Big Bad's super weapon, Trinity, was shown to have varying levels of destruction, ranging from vaporizing a medium-sized bridge, to destroying an entire city, and still having enough power to nearly knock the Protagonist off his feet from twenty or thirty miles away. The name is also clearly evocative of nuclear weapons. However, Trinity has shown to have zero nuclear fallout, and by all means, it is still a conventional warhead, all things considered. In short, it's not a nuke, but a really, really big bomb (implied to be a MOAB-type weapon, only bigger). Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown's DLC mission set features a submarine capable of firing nuclear warheads as many as 5,000 kilometers away. It so happens that said submarine is commanded by an absolutely psychotic naval Captain, Matias Torres, who wants to accomplish absurdly long-range shots that murder millions of people, all under the guise of trying to frighten nations into ending the Lighthouse War.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_4a6ef2c5	comment	In Space Battleship Yamato, a war between humans and the Gamilas saw the alien race dropping Meteor bombs on Earth and letting radiation kill everything. Eventually, the humans build the Yamato, which is outfitted with the Wave-Motion Gun. It is so incredibly destructive, however, that Admiral Ozuka will only sanction its use in emergencies, even though the Wave Motion Gun could easily wipe Gamilas from the face of the galaxy.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_4cc7ca61	comment	The violence showing the aftermath of nuclear war and message that nuclear weapons are bad is one of the reasons why Future War 198X is extremely hard to find.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_50cb8af5	comment	Late in The Vision of Escaflowne, a nuclear-like non-nuke is used during wartime to wipe out the opposing army.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_58a0656b	comment	In PAYDAY 2's Meltdown heist, the crew hits the same Murkywater PMC shipping yard from Shadow Raid, but in broad daylight. Ukrainian mob boss Vlad has contracted the PAYDAY gang to steal "a little something." Said "little something" turns out to be six nuclear warheads, in the middle of Washington, D.C., that Vlad plainly says is enough to "turn D.C. into molten glass." When the gang finds out, Bain flips out, losing his cool during a heist for the first time, and the only reason the heist continues is because there's so much heat on the gang that Bain can't get an emergency extraction near the warehouse.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_59151283	comment	In the Metal Gear franchise, the ability of the Metal Gear machines to launch nuclear weapons is basically the reason they are "bad," though they at least expand upon this in the games to make a reason for this—they use a large railgun to fire warheads as sub-orbital artillery, which means that, since the warheads were not ever technically part of a nuclear missile package, they don't violate several otherwise applicable treaties: "Loophole nukes" of a sort. Also, since these weapons can't be detected the way normal nukes are,note Lacking the massive, highly conspicuous rocket launches to accelerate them into a ballistic trajectory like ICBMs, or the slower, vulnerable bomber aircraft like traditional payloads which can be detected via radar which completely destroys the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction; any country with a REX derivative can launch a nuke at another country and be guaranteed that there will be no retaliatory strike, because there's no way to determine where it came from or that it's even happening until the nuke hits. And if you have an entire squadron of the things to launch the attack simultaneously... Also, the Proto Metal Gears all had the advantage of being easier for Third World Countries to have Nuclear capability of their own. The greatest danger was that every Non-Superpower Country having such power would completely mess up global politics. Especially since they were willing to sell them to terrorists or "Freedom Fighters" if the price was right. Now imagine a world where every Osama Bin Laden, Pol Pot, or Right-Wing Militia Fanatic had their own Walking Nuclear Death Mobiles and you can understand why the concept of a Proto Metal Gear scared the shit out of the First World militaries. Plus, the eponymous Peace Walker was essentially a nuclear platform programmed to launch even with false data, removing human decision making from launching and even preventing any practical counterattacks since its mobility allowed it to move quickly and avoid nukes, making it a truly terrifying weapon if attacked. Metal Gear RAY was an exception, being the only Metal Gear with no nuclear launch capability. It was envisioned as an "Anti-Metal Gear" weapon that could counter the threat of other Metal Gears. This factors into the gameplay of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which has a Karma Meter in the form of Heroism and Demon scores. Building nuclear weapons causes a sharp decrease to your Heroism score and an equal increase to your Demon score, while disarming nuclear weapons increases Heroism while decreasing your Demon score. A hidden cutscene is also rewarded in the event that all players in the game's asynchronous multiplayer component disarm every nuke between them.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_59da62aa	comment	Ironically, the lightweight parts kit for the Fat Man in Fallout: New Vegas still retains its original name of "Fat Man Little Boy kit" in the Japanese release of that game.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_5b3f67f1	comment	Psychic Squad appears to have a nuclear everything taboo, instead having "Neo-Clear" power plants, which the Big Bad promptly steals Neo-Clear fuel from and sells it to the "Al Lugia Liberation Front" to make bombs. Despite all this, it appears that lazy naming aside, Neo-Clear is actually something different, as no fallout or even much damage results from one of the bombs — though that may be to do with the Major containing the blast as he sees a local girl who bore a striking resemblance to Kaoru about to be caught in it. Needless to say, this annoys him, resulting in the messy deaths of the terrorists.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_5ec0f48	comment	Averted in ∀ Gundam. Eventually the quest for Lost Technology on an After the End Earth turns up a bunch of nuclear warheads. The terror of the discovery is milked for all its worth; the bombs' animation and sound effects are ominous and the terror of the Moonrace characters is contrasted with the Earthers who just think it's a desirably powerful bomb. Thanks to their being in an uninhabited area, only two lives are lost when they detonate—however, the mushroom cloud is paired with the "midnight sunrise" of the episode title, which is seen for many miles. The enormous crater and the effects of radioactive fallout are discussed, and the incident represents a major change in attitude for several main characters. It also recasts the plot from a conflict over territory rights to an existential threat to humanity's continued survival, and it becomes clear just how Earth was reduced to its After the End state in the first place.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_607f6b7	comment	One episode of Inspector Gadget has Dr. Claw attempt to launch an implicitly nuclear missile at Metro City, but nowhere is the "N" word used in the show.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_68c7e5cd	comment	In Macross Frontier reaction weapons are deployed when the Vajra have adapted to the normal weapons, in a desperate move to just gain time to develop Vajra-specific weapons. Reaction weapons are devastating in the first use, but the second time are pretty much ineffective due them having already adapted.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_69085a0	comment	"Reaction weaponry" in Macross needs official permission from the highest commanding officer within a colony before they can be launched. In later series, they are replaced by "Fold weapons", which are even more powerful (being capable of planetary-level destruction), as they operate by distorting space-time itself. Word of God has it that Reaction weapons were intended to be nuclear,note "reaction" was meant as shorthand for "nuclear reaction", for those viewers savvy enough to make the connection at least in the earlier series, but that explicitly showing the good guys using nukes was a no-no at the time. So they've made it antimatter warheads (see above) instead. The irony here is that these are theoretically more destructive than nukes, and would emit even more deadly gamma radiation than nukes as well. It's notable that while Reaction weaponry is tremendously powerful, and capable of rending apart Zentradi warships, that this is NOT particularly powerful by Zentradi standards: in the second episode of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, they manage to initiate a long range bombardment of a specific city on a specific planet with extreme accuracy from the distance of the lunar orbit with little problem, and later in the show a Zentradi fleet reduces an inhabited planet's surface to glass without actually using the forbidden Reaction weaponry. However, the big deal about reaction weaponry is that they're small enough that they can be easily carried even by small fighters. Macross Dynamite 7 actually shows an honest to goodness tactical nuclear weapon (complete with the nuclear hazard symbol) being used. But it's okay since it's the badguys using it. Macross Zero also features missiles that are explicitly identified as nuclear; while they are used by the good guys, their use is not treated as a good thing. Macross Ultimate Frontier displays the name of the target you're locked on in English (Britai's official Romanized name is apparently Vrlitwhai). The "reaction missiles" from the last mission of the Dynamite 7 campaign are called "Nuclear Missiles" in-game. In the Robotech adaptation/translation, these weapons are rendered as "Reflex weaponry." It sounds like they're hitting the enemy with a giant rubber mallet right below its knee. Generally speaking, Reaction and Reflex weaponry are always treated as a Godzilla Threshold, to be used only when anything less devastating has failed: In the original series, reaction weapons were deployed in the opening battle due the sudden alien invasion and the belief the Zentraedi were going to try and wipe out humanity. As it became clear the Zentraedi had no such intention, reaction weapons were shelved... Right until the moment the main Zentraedi fleet decided to do just that, at which point reaction weapons were once again used. A final use is made in the capture of the Factory Satellite, as success would mean crippling the surviving Zentraedi and boosting Earth's production abilities a thousandfold at once. In Macross 7, reaction weapons are used when the sheer scale of the threat posed by the Protodeviln is finally understood. In the first use, the two Protodeviln who show up get disintegrated by a volley of reaction weapons... And then, to everyone's horror, simply regenerate, forcing the research of alternative solutions. In Macross Zero the nuclear/reaction weapons are deployed against the Bird Human that, having bond with a grieving Sarah Nome, has decided to just bomb humanity back into stone age and attacks with conventional weapons have proven to be ineffective against its Deflector Shield-hence the decision to deploy a Destroid Monster with reaction weapons before the thing could get to a densely populated area, fully knowing that everyone would be killed either by the blast or by falling a few kilometers once the Bird Human could not continue levitating the seagoing ships that were trying to oppose it. Then Shin Kudo manages to calm down Sarah, who stops the Bird Human... Too late to inform the commander he must stop the Monster, that comes out and fires its weapons less than a minute later. Sarah has the Bird Human use its shield to contain the blast, being heavily damaged in the process but still able to deposit the ships gently, and then brings it away from Earth. In Macross Frontier reaction weapons are deployed when the Vajra have adapted to the normal weapons, in a desperate move to just gain time to develop Vajra-specific weapons. Reaction weapons are devastating in the first use, but the second time are pretty much ineffective due them having already adapted. In Macross Delta reaction weapons are authorized for use against the Windermereans after it's realized they can brainwash their opponents. Once that problem is solved reaction weapons are shelved, as without that the Windermereans are far less effective-and indeed the last episodes see them suffering repeated defeats anywhere they don't have their aces, and at the hands not of the NUNS main forces but an underequipped local militia. In Robotech reflex weapons are first used in the opening and final battles of the First Robotech War and the capture of the Robotech Factory Satellite, the same as Macross' three uses. They're later used in the Second Robotech War, first in the opening battle in a completely unauthorized use (the Robotech Masters and the Army of the Southern Cross were posturing before opening negotiations when an ASC officer lost his cool and fired a volley against one of the Masters' motherships) causing massive damage to its target, and then are fired in large volleys to try and overcome the Masters' shields (the first time they had been effective because the Masters, being posturing but not really willing to start a shooting war, had kept the shields down to not escalate), not always with good results because the Masters' shields were just that tough. They're also fired with abandon in the Third Robotech War, as the best way to counter the Invid's swarm tactics is to take out their carriers before they can launch and the Invid's sheer numbers make the use of any and all weapons to destroy their carriers early an absolute necessity.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_6ae0a01e	comment	Sentou Yousei Yukikaze: In a major aversion of this trope for a Japanese-produced work, the first novel reveals that Japan has nukes. On Faery, both the FAF & the JAM use nuclear missiles in their battles against each other. What makes it such an aversion is that the series does not make any kind of moral judgment on the use of nukes, only considering them in terms of their battlefield effectiveness.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_6c1d09b3	comment	The Japanese release of Fallout 3 had the entire questline related to detonating the nuclear weapon at Megaton removed. This also removes the Tenpenny Towers quests that open up in relation to it. The Fat Man launcher was renamed "Nuka Launcher" (Perhaps trying to connect more towards the fictional in game soft drink Nuka-Cola), though this one should have been obvious considering that the name "Fat Man" comes from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki... Ironically, the lightweight parts kit for the Fat Man in Fallout: New Vegas still retains its original name of "Fat Man Little Boy kit" in the Japanese release of that game.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_6f48e446	comment	Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars' German translation made aurora bombs out of the nuclear bombs because depicting weapons of mass destruction in computer games would lead to an X-rating of same game. There was a Kane edition which still had nuclear bombs (and suicide bombers) and was sold only to adults.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_70814599	comment	Also inverted in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, as the USAF makes use of nuclear weapons in several episodes of each.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_7385bc4d	comment	Averted in Doraemon. The titular robot cat holds a gadget called Bomb of Mass Destruction (called Earth-Destroying Bomb in Japanese), which looks similar to Little Boy. Amazingly, the bomb is Played for Laughs (something understandably rare for Japanese works), as in one instance Doraemon decides to use it upon being scared by a mouse.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_74520b69	comment	A major plot point in Terror in Resonance: the series begins with the theft of a plutonium core from a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. It's eventually revealed it was not plutonium that was stolen, but a completed miniature nuclear bomb built by the Japanese government in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_74c5b2f3	comment	Advance Wars: Days of Ruin refers to Nemesis missiles (Climax in the European version) that were installed in both main countries by the IDS. They share a lot of similarity with the Cold War nukes the US and USSR were amassing, and might be in fact nukes, but the game leaves that open to interpretation, as they never launch.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_760f9989	comment	And then Resident Evil: Degeneration just comes right out and says that it was a nuke that was dropped on Raccoon city.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_7668653a	comment	There's also a scene in Mass Effect 2 that points out that if you fling something really heavy at a target at a respectable fraction of the speed of light you don't really need nukes, because the amount of kinetic energy involved will equal a Hiroshima city buster.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_7821bc2	comment	The New Humans: Enforced by the Flying Man sabotaging all the world's nuclear weapons before the story's start.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_7de8951a	comment	In Traveller nukes are restricted to the Imperial Navy. And if anyone not belonging to the Imperial Navy decides to use or even possess them, well, The Imperial Navy has nukes. Make of that what you will.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_8889afa3	comment	Though in the Rogue Trader, it's possible to buy WMD nuclear weapons, these are known as Atomics (similar to Dune) and yeah they occupy a niche of being powerful enough to take down any conventional enemy in a large area, but not to the point of destroying the planet.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam has an interesting history with trope. Nuclear weapons do exist in most continuities, but their use tends to be limited by Nuclear Nullifiers and Fictional Geneva Conventions. Inevitably, some sides violate the latter, but are usually thwarted with far fewer civilian casualties than Colony Drops or gassing. We also see nuclear weapons used for things besides bombing populated area; Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack has opposing sides using nuclear bombs/missile to send an asteroid toward the Earth or to break it apart. Averted in ∀ Gundam. Eventually the quest for Lost Technology on an After the End Earth turns up a bunch of nuclear warheads. The terror of the discovery is milked for all its worth; the bombs' animation and sound effects are ominous and the terror of the Moonrace characters is contrasted with the Earthers who just think it's a desirably powerful bomb. Thanks to their being in an uninhabited area, only two lives are lost when they detonate—however, the mushroom cloud is paired with the "midnight sunrise" of the episode title, which is seen for many miles. The enormous crater and the effects of radioactive fallout are discussed, and the incident represents a major change in attitude for several main characters. It also recasts the plot from a conflict over territory rights to an existential threat to humanity's continued survival, and it becomes clear just how Earth was reduced to its After the End state in the first place.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_90e2f673	comment	In BattleTech the Ares Conventions forbid the use of nuclear weapons within 75,000 km of an inhabited planet. Chemical and biological weapons, or Orbital Bombardment of civilians, are similarly verboten. And then the Jihad happened... The Word of Blake, who committed said jihad, proceeded to get pounded into the ground during Operation SCOUR, by the combined might of most of the Inner Sphere. In all, using nukes in the battletech universe is a great way to get everyone else to stop shooting at each other and start shooting at YOU.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_9453927b	comment	In Heat Guy J most of the world's population has been destroyed after they appropriated the technology of the resident Superior Species. Originally, it was used for peaceful purposes (e.g. energy production), but people started wars using this Applied Phlebotinum. The survivors stopped trusting each other and closed themselves into seven city states, and the Celestials closely monitor any peaceful use of their technology. It's never stated what it is exactly, but it does sound an awful lot like nuclear power.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_99bf2868	comment	Macross Zero also features missiles that are explicitly identified as nuclear; while they are used by the good guys, their use is not treated as a good thing.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_9afa4e32	comment	Vegatron bombs from UFO Robo Grendizer (one of the Mazinger Z sequels): It is explicitly stated they are radioactive, they are able to easily obliterate whole cities, the explosion forms a mushroom cloud, and they leave the land polluted with radioactivity. But no, they are not nukes. They are vegatron bombs.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_9cefc9f8	comment	In Macross Delta reaction weapons are authorized for use against the Windermereans after it's realized they can brainwash their opponents. Once that problem is solved reaction weapons are shelved, as without that the Windermereans are far less effective-and indeed the last episodes see them suffering repeated defeats anywhere they don't have their aces, and at the hands not of the NUNS main forces but an underequipped local militia.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	The first Godzilla movie, Godzilla (1954), is a parable about nuclear weapons, with Godzilla having been created by US nuclear tests (a fact left out of the version of the film that was re-edited for U.S. release). Said parable is almost entirely lost in the sequels. The Return of Godzilla is the big exception. The movie is about Cold War tensions, and even has a Russian nuclear bomb dropped on Tokyo in an attempt to kill Godzilla. Naturally, it goes very poorly, and actually revives the monster after a special Japanese aircraft had successfully knocked him down. Apparently, Japan was pretty fed up with having to tap-dance between the two nuclear superpowers. Godzilla (2014), being a reboot which intentionally goes back to themes and tone of the first film, does not shy away from the character's origins. Godzilla was accidentally awakened by a nuclear submarine in the 1950s and Operation Bravo was actually attempts to kill him. Later, the US military uses active nukes to try and lure the monsters together so they can wiped out together in the explosion, but it goes wrong when one of the MUTOs steals one of the weapons and plants it in the middle of downtown San Francisco. The lead scientist (who is Japanese) even objects to the use of nukes by referring to the fact he and his father were survivors of Hiroshima's destruction. Shin Godzilla is another major aversion, being heavily inspired by the events of the 2011 TÅ�hoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear meltdown. Godzilla was created by illegally dumped nuclear waste and this fact was covered up until it was too late. The second half of the film revolves around members of the Japanese government trying to find anything to kill or neutralize Godzilla before the UN enacts their own plan: dropping a nuke on him and hope it's enough. Understandably, nobody is happy with this idea, but the possibility of Godzilla soon becoming a global menace is enough to justify the destruction of Tokyo.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_a2f21bd0	comment	Adventure Hunters: War golems so horrified humanity that they were decomissioned soon after they were created. Centuries later, when the story takes place, most people don't believe weapons of such power ever existed and think of them as a myth. Those that know the truth encourage this mindset. The punishment for using them is life imprisoned in The Alcatraz.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_a54eef52	comment	Hetalia: Axis Powers manages to be about anthropomorphic countries, set partly during World War II, with the personifications of America and Japan as main characters, and still never mention nuclear weapons. Partly because the WWII part of the story never gets to that point (it's more or less abandoned by now), and partly because the series avoids showing the Darker and Edgier parts of history. This is the same anime that managed to condense the entire Cold War into a condom joke that took less than two minutes. Yeah.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_a83e83d4	comment	Belka is the only nation stated to have used nukes in a war. During the events of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, in an act of desperation, they resorted to dropping nukes on 7 of their own cities to try and delay the allied advance. The rest of the world was horrified at this, and may explain the world's preference for other types of weaponry. Backstory seems to suggest that nuclear weapons were not developed until the 1980s, instead of the 1930s and 1940s as in real life. Though nuclear power was apparently developed much earlier (nuclear submarines and reactors exist), which leads to a bit of a headscratcher as to why the technology was weaponized so late - presumably there was never any conflict on a large enough scale with a desperate enough situation before then to necessitate trying it (seeing as the Belkan War of 1995 is more or less Ace Combat's World War II).
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_b0e228be	comment	The "Bleach Protocol" in Generator Rex, used as a last resort against particularly dangerous EVOs. Lampshaded in one episode:
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_b1aad332	comment	A History of Magic: The reason this trope exists in this 'verse is because Sadako Sasaki, one of the victims of Hiroshima, Wished for it. Kyubey is shocked that she would wish for that rather than to be cured of her leukemia, but Sadako decides having the taboo is worth her Heroic Sacrifice. It's notably one of the few times Kyubey shows actual remorse for his actions.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_b36b99c6	comment	Hulk. The US military uses gamma bombs as an alternative to nuclear weapons detonated inside the United States.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_b5a03cec	comment	In the Robotech adaptation/translation, these weapons are rendered as "Reflex weaponry." It sounds like they're hitting the enemy with a giant rubber mallet right below its knee.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_b9d8a16a	comment	The Empire superweapon in Perimeter is a SRBM note Short Range Ballistic Missile launcher with a tactical nuclear warhead, but it's simply called a "Ballistic Missile Launcher"
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_ba07853c	comment	Plus, the eponymous Peace Walker was essentially a nuclear platform programmed to launch even with false data, removing human decision making from launching and even preventing any practical counterattacks since its mobility allowed it to move quickly and avoid nukes, making it a truly terrifying weapon if attacked.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_bb99f857	comment	In Warship Gunner 2, one of the most advanced missile systems you can get is called the High Explosive missile. It creates a suspiciously flashy mushroom cloud and causes huge amounts of damage, but it's rather short-ranged and there's a danger that you could run into the explosion if you're too fast. The weapon after that is the Napalm missile which is only half as damaging but has twice the range and is alot safer to use.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In Warhammer 40,000 nuclear technology is known to be used by the Imperium of Man (the Death World of Krieg looks like the trenches of WWI due to a half-millenia of nuclear war), it sees little use in the game except for Rad weapons, and even then those are used for radioactive fallout rather than sheer destructive force. Partly justified in the setting when there are FAR more powerful and destructive weapons used on a routine basis with barely special status given to them. Though in the Rogue Trader, it's possible to buy WMD nuclear weapons, these are known as Atomics (similar to Dune) and yeah they occupy a niche of being powerful enough to take down any conventional enemy in a large area, but not to the point of destroying the planet.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_bd41836e	comment	StarCraft: While nuclear missiles are used, they're very much a Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke (even taking Units Not to Scale into effect), most buildings will survive getting hit by one. The reason for this is the backstory: An entire planet was reduced to glass and desert by an interstellar missile barrage of 1000 Apocalypse-class missiles. The aftermath was that such huge nukes were banned, but the smaller ones are permitted. Ironically, Arcturus Mengsk has absolutely no problems with nuking his own planet again if necessary (despite the bombardment being what caused him to rebel against the Confederacy in the first place).
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_bdb01400	comment	Averted in Arachnid. A magical ageless little girl brainwashed Hideki Tojo to wage war and upon losing World War II arranged the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the United States so that she could lose in such a spectacular way the Allied Forces would feel inferior. Also, in the prequel Caterpillar, Osamu Tezuka explodes once his nuclear reactor is damaged, wiping out the Ageha cruise ship and with it several V.I.P.s who were a thorn on the Organization's side.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_c11d0e7f	comment	The Soviet director Leonid Gaidai exploited this trope as a way to save his comedy The Diamond Arm from censorship. The film included controversial (by Soviet standards) scenes, such as a striptease, the protagonist's drunken debauche and an anti-Semitic remark by a rather unpleasant Soviet bureaucrat. Before showing the film to the censors Gaidai inserted the footage of a nuclear explosion into the epilogue. The censors, in a state of shock, allowed Gaidai to leave most of the film intact, on the condition that he cut out the nuke and the anti-Semitic remark. The Diamond Arm is now a cult film in Russia.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_c17ac72a	comment	Shin Godzilla is another major aversion, being heavily inspired by the events of the 2011 TÅ�hoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear meltdown. Godzilla was created by illegally dumped nuclear waste and this fact was covered up until it was too late. The second half of the film revolves around members of the Japanese government trying to find anything to kill or neutralize Godzilla before the UN enacts their own plan: dropping a nuke on him and hope it's enough. Understandably, nobody is happy with this idea, but the possibility of Godzilla soon becoming a global menace is enough to justify the destruction of Tokyo.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_c2bfec7c	comment	Startlingly averted in Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. The very first scene features a nuclear missile, complete with Slow-Motion Pass-By, being detonated over an only thinly-veiled New York City, mushroom cloud and all. It has the realistic effects on the city, with the exception of leaving the visiting President alive, if barely.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_c7539344	comment	Used... differently in Singularity: There exist nuclear bombs, but the real focus is on an E-99 bomb that is a little bigger than a basketball and can turn the whole East Coast of your United States into a smoldering crater. Then there's the eponymous Singularity.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_c8c98633	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 half-managed this by having the US's nuclear stockpile destroyed in their silos during the introduction, and presumably none of the other Allies have any either. Nuclear warheads are a Soviet-exclusive superweapon, their answer to the Allies' Weather Control Device.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_c8c98634	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 removed nuclear weapons from the game through a plot device while its predecessors used them amply. This no doubt had to do with the addition of a Japanese faction and someone rightly figuring that creating a game that you won by dropping a nuclear weapon on the Japanese might make someone mad. The Soviet superweapon is still an ICBM-delivered WMD, however. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 half-managed this by having the US's nuclear stockpile destroyed in their silos during the introduction, and presumably none of the other Allies have any either. Nuclear warheads are a Soviet-exclusive superweapon, their answer to the Allies' Weather Control Device. Command & Conquer: Generals: Averted, the Chinese army is all too happy to use nuclear power, whether to power their buildings, their tanks, or just fire nuclear missiles. Their second artillery vehicle also lobs nuclear shells. One campaign level even has a rogue general join the GLA and fire a nuke at American troops (China having authorized the Americans to take out the rogue), while another has China give GLA turncoats nukes (which are reclaimed by the player's GLA and used to kill the traitors). The Expansion Pack features a Chinese General whose preference is nuclear weapons. His tanks use enriched Uranium shells, he has better (if more expensive) nuclear reactors and always has the Nuke Cannon (aforementioned artillery vehicle). Fittingly, his base is located near a deserted town (which even sports 2 of the stolen nuclear trucks that can be captured if the player is very smart) and radiation puddles are everywhere.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_c9f912e	comment	NationStates has this pretty often in open RPs. The taboo seems so ingrained that even in RPs involving use of an unholy Lovecraftian monster and other WMDs, using a tactical nuke against said abomination is considered horrible. Despite this, many nations maintain nuclear stockpiles for deterrence purposes.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter Ã— Hunter has the Miniature Rose, which instead of producing a mushroom cloud, produces a rose cloud. Furthermore, it also produces radiation (called Rose Poison). But of course, it's not a nuclear bomb, no. One of the few examples where such weapon is used for kind of good reason.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_cb802e97	comment	In Macross 7, reaction weapons are used when the sheer scale of the threat posed by the Protodeviln is finally understood. In the first use, the two Protodeviln who show up get disintegrated by a volley of reaction weapons... And then, to everyone's horror, simply regenerate, forcing the research of alternative solutions.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_cbad9b62	comment	Warships in Legend of the Galactic Heroes carry nuclear weapons, which makes it appear to avert this trope. However, the usage of nuclear weapons are limited to specific conditions in spacenote Beam weaponry are the mainstay in the series, and there is a taboo placed on using them on inhabited planets after a nuclear apocalypse in the backstory almost wiped out the human race.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_d461f757	comment	Inverted in Battlestar Galactica (2003). The entire show was based on dosing the audience with a September 11 reaction to watching nukes ruin every main character's day throughout the series. The pilot shows a whole planet being nuked from orbit. Justified, of course, since there's a war going on. While the Cylons have the majority of nukes throughout the series, the Colonials used a few themselves. One, to destroy a Resurrection Ship that kept humanoid Cylons from staying dead, and another inside an ancient baseship in the special episode, "Razor." Oh, and there was the matter of finding an Earth obliterated by nuclear war, and soon after, using several Colonial nuclear missiles aiding to destroy a Cylon stronghold in the final episode, "Exodus." You might as well have given the show a new title: Nuke 'Em: The Series. It appears that the Japanese themselves have not only enjoyed the American-based show, but also produced and watched comics and video games based on the series.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_d6666774	comment	The Return of Godzilla is the big exception. The movie is about Cold War tensions, and even has a Russian nuclear bomb dropped on Tokyo in an attempt to kill Godzilla. Naturally, it goes very poorly, and actually revives the monster after a special Japanese aircraft had successfully knocked him down. Apparently, Japan was pretty fed up with having to tap-dance between the two nuclear superpowers.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_d72b0239	comment	In Rise of Nations, players can build nukes, but as soon as a player researches Nuclear Weapons, the Doomsday Counter appears on his screen. It starts at a number based on the number of players in the game, and every time a nuke is launched, it decreases by 1. Each time a player researches the "Missile Shield" supertech it increases by 2. If it ever hits 0, the game ends, with everyone losing.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_d794a2a2	comment	AKIRA leveled Tokyo as a trigger to World War III with "a new type of bomb," which turned out to be a psychic blast from the title character. Also subverted; in the manga, a nuclear weapon is used, and they make a big deal out of it.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_dbec62fe	comment	The "outer-shell bomb" in The Place Promised in Our Early Days.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_dd4ebe49	comment	The "Jignix" bomb in MD Geist: Death Force.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_de8fbcb1	comment	Godzilla (2014), being a reboot which intentionally goes back to themes and tone of the first film, does not shy away from the character's origins. Godzilla was accidentally awakened by a nuclear submarine in the 1950s and Operation Bravo was actually attempts to kill him. Later, the US military uses active nukes to try and lure the monsters together so they can wiped out together in the explosion, but it goes wrong when one of the MUTOs steals one of the weapons and plants it in the middle of downtown San Francisco. The lead scientist (who is Japanese) even objects to the use of nukes by referring to the fact he and his father were survivors of Hiroshima's destruction.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_ea914eb2	comment	In Twilight Struggle, if DEFCON falls to 1, indicating that the Cold War has gone hot, the game is over and whoever started the chain of events that led to it loses. It doesn't matter if the other player's actions were responsible for dropping DEFCON - if nuclear war happens on your watch, the end of civilization is your fault.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_ed34453f	comment	Zone 66: The World Council banned all nuclear weapons immediately after taking power, and for a time, it was thought that they succeeded at eradicating them. By the start of the game, however, nuclear missiles have struck multiple cities around the world, killing 60 million civilians in a year.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_eee45be2	comment	Even when Namco changed over to the real world in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, they played this trope straight. The Big Bad's super weapon, Trinity, was shown to have varying levels of destruction, ranging from vaporizing a medium-sized bridge, to destroying an entire city, and still having enough power to nearly knock the Protagonist off his feet from twenty or thirty miles away. The name is also clearly evocative of nuclear weapons. However, Trinity has shown to have zero nuclear fallout, and by all means, it is still a conventional warhead, all things considered. In short, it's not a nuke, but a really, really big bomb (implied to be a MOAB-type weapon, only bigger).
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_f26c58d6	comment	Some language versions of World in Conflict call the tactical nuke that can be used in multiplayer a "BFB." Big Friggin Bomb? However, it's pretty obvious what it is a nuke, and the campaign plot doesn't attempt to hide it. However, they are only used as a last resort in the campaign, while it can be used with impunity in multiplayer given enough points. Not to mention that you get a medal for launching lots of nukes...
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_f4a04cd2	comment	In Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, at the end, Raccoon City is destroyed in a huge flash of light that, to all appearances, would seem to be a nuclear explosion. In an interview made soon after the game's release, the game's writer, Yasuhisa Kawamura, claims that the bomb was a top secret thermobaric weapon instead of a nuke. However, in a later game, it's established that it was just hit by a whole bunch of conventional missiles at once. Note that in the real world, conventional explosions, no matter how large, do not give off the bright flash that is typical of nuclear detonations. And then Resident Evil: Degeneration just comes right out and says that it was a nuke that was dropped on Raccoon city.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_f599977e	comment	Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown's DLC mission set features a submarine capable of firing nuclear warheads as many as 5,000 kilometers away. It so happens that said submarine is commanded by an absolutely psychotic naval Captain, Matias Torres, who wants to accomplish absurdly long-range shots that murder millions of people, all under the guise of trying to frighten nations into ending the Lighthouse War.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_f98c0423	comment	In the Giant Robo OVAs, the shameful secret of Giant Robo wasn't that it was a massive engine of destruction commanded by the will of a twelve-year-old boy, but that it was powered by a nuclear reactor.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_fde6c0bc	comment	The A-bomb is central to the plot of Night Raid 1931 but it's only ever called "new type of bomb." It makes sense: most characters don't know anything more about it, and those who know don't call it by name.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_febb8460	comment	The ancient warriors from NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind certainly count.
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Nuclear Weapons Taboo / int_ff96c94e	comment	Dairugger XV, in its third episode, has the Galveston Empire attack the surface of a planet with "photon missiles." Given their blast radii, these were almost certainly intended to be nukes.
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Neon Genesis Evangelion / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Paranoia Agent / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
RahXephon / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Resident Evil: Degeneration / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Senki Zesshou Symphogear / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Space Battleship Yamato / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Super Dimension Century Orguss / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Super Dimension Fortress Macross / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Symphogear / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Place Promised in Our Early Days / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
∀ Gundam / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
UFO Robo Grendizer / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Vividred Operation / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Katmandu (Comic Book) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) (Comic Book) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Aeon Entelechy Evangelion / Fan Fic / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Shinji and Warhammer 40k / Fan Fic / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
A Dream (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
A New World (Pognut) (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Along Came a Spider (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
And If That Don't Work? (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Birds of a Feather (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Civilization V: Peace Walker (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Davion & Davion (Deceased) (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Freedom's Ring (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Hunters of Justice (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
OC Story (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Super Robot Wars High (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Deep Impact / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Godzilla (1954) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Godzilla (2014) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Hulk / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Atomic Submarine / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Last War (1961) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Return of Godzilla / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Digimon (Franchise) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Godzilla (Franchise) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (Franchise) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
A Canticle for Leibowitz / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
CoDominium / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Debt of Honor / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
11/22/63 / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Foundation's Edge / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Frontlines / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Hell-Fire / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Hell-Fire (1956) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
If This Goes On— / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Look to the West / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Malê Rising / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Orange Tempest / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Out of the Dark / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Anglo/American â€“ Nazi War / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Big One / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Death of Russia / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Eagle Down Under / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Salvation War / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Second Renaissance / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
When Angels Wept / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
AGiantSuckingSound	seeAlso	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
SuperpowerClassic	seeAlso	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
SusanDavis	seeAlso	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Trigger	seeAlso	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Arachnid (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Birdy the Mighty (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Boys Be... (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Cannon God Exaxxion (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Get Backers (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Gunnm (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Hunter Ã— Hunter (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
In This Corner of the World (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Saikano (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Legend of Koizumi (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Toward the Terra (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Yakuza Girl (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Deceit (Music) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
A Modern World (Roleplay) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Eurth (Roleplay) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Mefhor Canon Bloc (Roleplay) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Kamen Rider V3 / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Ultraseven / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Twilight Struggle (Tabletop Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Ace Combat 2 (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Azur Lane (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Civilization: Beyond Earth (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Command & Conquer: Generals (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Dune (1992) (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Fading Afternoon (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Gungriffon / Videogame / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Heatseeker (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Perimeter (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Phantasy Star Universe (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Rise of the Reds (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Vega Strike (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Zettai Hero Project (Video Game) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Demonbane (Visual Novel) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Muv-Luv Unlimited: The Day After (Visual Novel) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Generator Rex / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Megas XLR / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Macross 7 / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Neon Exodus Evangelion (Fanfic) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Atlas Shrugged / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Battle Angel Alita (Manga) / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo

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